Rowlatt Acts, (February 1919), legislation passed by the Imperial Legislative Council, the legislature of British India. The acts allowed certain political cases to be tried without juries and permitted internment of suspects without trial.ORRowlatt Act 1919 authorised the Government:To arrest and imprison any person without trial in a court of law.To demand security from any person, impose restriction on residence, curb freedom of activities, to search house and arrest any person, at any place.
This was the act passed in 1919 through the imperial legislative council that gave government enormous power to repress political activities and detain political prisoners without trial