The Archive · 1930

Special Powers for Police

Mar. 15, a view to counteracting Gandhi's campaign, the Central Board of Revenue has invested every. police officer above a constable in the Bombay Presidency with the powers of a Salt Revenue Officer to enable them to. confiscate unauthorized salt and to take any other action in [connection with such confiscation, The Legislative Assembly to-day, by 53 votes to 30, defeated the Nationalist motion, moved by the Nationalist leader, Pandit Malaviya, for an adjournment to discuss the imprisonment of Vallabhai Patel, 'The latter, who is a brother of the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and a prominent follower Miahatmoa Gandhi, the Indian Nationalist leader, was sentenced at Borsad on March 7 to three months' imprisonment and a fine rupees, of, as an alternate further three week's imprisonment, for disobeying the order prohibiting speech—Reuter.

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