(EDITORIAL) The discriminatory treatment meted out by the Commander-in-Chief to Capt.

Abdur Rashid of the I.N.A. [Indian National Army] has aroused bitter resentment throughout the country, and demonstrations which have taken place, quite apart from proceedings inside the Assembly, should convince the authorities that their act of calculated injustice towards this particular of ficer will not be taken by his countrymen lying down.

In the Assembly the War Secretary, Mr.

Mason, attempted to justify the decision in the case of Capt. Abdur Rashid by resorting to the excuse that while he had been found guilty of acts of `brutality`, Capt. Shah Nawaz and the other accused in the first I.N.A. trial were found guilty of only `abetment of murder`. Mr. Jinnah ... made Mr. Mason look somewhat foolish by pointing out that in the eye of the law (with which the War Secretary did not seem very familiar) abetment of murder is as serious an offence as murder itself and is therefore a greater `act of brutality` than `causing grievous bodily hurt`. ...What angers the people and causes special resentment to Muslims is the fact that mercy should be denied to a man charged with letter crimes when it was extended to those whose of fences were greater.... Dawn Delhi