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 AFTER THE ARREST

THE ARREST,

��Mr. Gandhi was arrested at the Satyagraha Ashram Ahmedabad on Friday the lOih March, for certain articles published in his Young India. On the llth noon Messrs. Gandhi and .Sankarlal Banker the publisher were placed betoie Mr. Brown, Assistant Magistrate, the Court being held in the Divisional Commissioner's Office at Sahibah. 'I he prosecution was conducted by Kao Bahadur Girdharilal, Public Prosecutor. The Superinten- dent of Police, Ahmedabad, the lirst witness, produced the Bomba) Goverment's authority to lodge a complaint for four articles published in Young India, dated the ]5th June, l92i, entitled " Disaffection a Virtue ", dated the <^th September, " '1 amperiiig with Loyalty " dated the 15th December, ' The Puzzle and Its Solution " and dated the 28rd February 1922, 41 >haking the Manes." Two formal police witnesses were then produced. The accused declined to cross-examine the witnesses

MR. GANDHI'S STATEMENT.

Mr. M. K. Gandhi, 53, farmer and weaver by profes- sion, residing at Satya&taha Ashram, Sabarniati, said :

I simply wish to state that when the proper time comes I shall plead guilty so far as disaffection towards the Government is concerned. It is quite true that I am the Editor of Young India and that the articles read in my presence were written by me and the proprietors and publishers had permitted me to control the whole policy of the paper.

The case then having been committed to the Sessions Mr. Gandhi was taken to the Sabarmati Jail where he was detained till the hearing which was to come off on, March 18.

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