Proceedings of the Legislative Council of the United Provinces Wednesday 31st January 1923 Official Report

2 of tne 31st O.tober 1922 will the Hon'ble the Minister of Local SelfGovernment kindly sbate the result of the inquiry into the circustances of the loss in cheap grain business ? (b) With reference to the same question will the Hon'ble Minister kindly state the circumstances in which the investment in Jagdamba dairy was made by the municipal board in question in the face of the present fina [...] A copy of the resolution is enclosed." The copy of the resolution was as follows:— " That this Council recommends to the Governor in Council to take steps for the establishment of a Chief Court for Ondh." I find however that the resolution that is proposed by the Government by the Hon'ble Home Member has the following words added to it: " On the general lines of the following scheme." When t [...] The honourable members of this House will remember that some years ago an attempt was made by the Government of Sir James La Touche if I remember aright and later on by the Government of Sir James Meston to remove the grievance of the litigants of Oudh Wand of the Oudh public in general by abolishing the Court of the Judicial Commissioner of Oudh and by offering them the same system of the adm [...] Oae was that the system of administration of justice in the highest appellate court of the province of Oudh was unsatisfactory that the court was not adequate to the needs of the times and that it was found on all hands that the Court of the Judicial Commissioner was out of date and that if the cases of the people of Oudh were to be satisfactorily tried—and there was no reason why they should not [...] The law will have to be altered and as long as the law is not altered you may give any number of judges to that Court but the complaint of the people of Oudh will not be removed; and if the law has to be altered then I say it had better be altered by altering the status of the Court of the Judicial Commissioner of Oudh and by raising it to that of a Chief Court instead of allowing the Court to c