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Lahore, Tuesday, August 21, 1917

The Right to Conduct Political Processions.



THE Hindu in the course of an article draws attention to the inconvenience and obstruction caused by certain police officers by prohibiting the conducting of political processions as being altogether illegal and vexatious. Both in Madras city and other place police notices were served on certain popular leaders warning them under the Police Act, not to conduct any "public assembly or procession in the streets in connection with the Home Rule League or the Theosophical Society, or the interments of Mrs. Besant and her colleagues or the Swadeshi movement or any other similar object." It will be seen how drastic the application of powers is to holding political, religious or industrial processions. Section 30 of the General Police Act only refers to processions which are likely to cause a breach of the peace in the judgement of a magistrate, but not to those which the police officers of Madras have stopped.

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