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Question
What was the aim and purpose of Ilbert Bill?
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Solution
Sir Percy Ilbert, Law Minister of the Viceroy’s Executive Council introduced this Bill in order to give Indian Magistrates the power to try Europeans making them at par with the British Judges. The purpose of this Bill was to remove the difference between the Indian and European Judges.
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