asked the Under-Secretary of State for India if he is aware that at 6 a.m. on r4th January an officer of Military Intelligence, who had travelled specially from Calcutta and returned there the same day, searched the kit of Captain M. B. Jones, R.A., Muttra, India Command, against whom no offence is alleged, read all his personal letters, perused his books and removed private property including II letters, a photograph, a used cheque book and a ballet programme; and what purpose was served by this expenditure of public money.