Government of India letter on releasing detained Communists and cancelling outstanding warrants — closing page

Government

Date: 1942-06-08
From: [Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department]
To: [Provincial Government — with copies to the Viceroy's Private Secretary and four departments]
Classification: [not shown on this page — the letter's opening sheet is not in this collection]
File reference: No. 7/2/42-Poll(I)
Page: p. 4, the final page
Document type: Letter (Government of India, Home Department) to Provincial Governments

Signatories

[autograph signature, read with some uncertainty as] E. Conran-SmithSecretary to the Government of IndiaAutograph signature, flowing hand, only partly legible
[name not given]Under Secretary to the Government of IndiaAutograph signature on the copy-forwarding endorsement, illegible

Marginalia & annotations

The day figure in "June the 22nd" is overtyped and the date at the foot has a struck-through figure before "the 8th June 1942". Red archival "9".

Transcript verbatim

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separate ban that may now exist against their previous
organs such as "The National Front" and "The New Age";
but it would be made clear in the contemplated announcement
that any resumption of underground or 'illegal' publica-
tions would be a cause for withdrawing the liberty
given to them.

7.      In order to give effect to the policy mentioned
above, so far as they are concerned, the Government
of India are prepared to cancel the warrants outstanding
against the remaining two leading communists G.M.
Adhikari and P. Sundarama Reddi. Of the sixteen
communists who formed the subject of the recommendation
of the Central Review Committee, three, namely,
Sajjad Zaheer, R.C. Sinha and S.K. Mukerjee have
already been released. The Government of India are
prepared to release seven more, namely H.D. Malaviya,
S.S. Mirajkar, H.K. Mazumdar, Rahul Sankritayana,
S.G. Patkar, A.S.K. Ayyangar and A.K. Ghosh. They
are not for the present prepared to release S.A. Dange,
S.V. Ghate, S.S. Batliwala, B.T. Ranadive, R.D. Bharadwaj
and Sher Jung.

8.      I am to enquire whether the Provincial Government
is prepared to agree to the policy outlined above.
In view of the urgency of the matter, I am to ask for
a reply before June the 22nd [figure overtyped] and to say that, if no
reply is received by that date, it will be
assumed that the Provincial Government has no objection
to offer.

                        I have the honour to be,
                                Sir,
                        Your most obedient servant,

                        [signed] E. Conran-Smith [reading uncertain]

                Secretary to the Government of India.

No. 7/2/42-Poll(I)                      New Delhi, the [struck through] Ju[ne]
                                        the 8th June 1942
        Copies to
                Private Secy. to H.E. the Viceroy.
                Secretary, Governor General(Public).
                Defence Department.
                Political Department.
                External Affairs Department.

                        By order,

                        [signed, illegible]

                Under Secretary to the Govt. of India