Government of Bengal. Report on the Administration of Bengal 1923-24

Ho pointed out the consequences of clueing to vote the Ministers' salaries and of rejecting the Budget in Into, laying special, emphasis on the fact that with regard to the Transferred 1)epartments the powers of the Governor of authorizing emergency expenditure are limited strictly to the provision of money for the bare necessities required for the existence of those departments and do not extend [...] 'After the failure of the Alipore conspiracy case, plying to the general atmosphere of intimidation and the Ittet that much ,of the evidence in the possession ,of Governmea could not be. placed before the Court, some' of the men who had been accused iii*that case were interned. [...] On the one side were, the "no- changers" or orthodox non-cp-opi7ration party with the Servant, the Fiswamitra, the Atidtula Bazar Patrika, the illittssatmare and the Vasumati, on 'the other the Swarajy► party with the Forward, the Ainrita Bazar l'atrika And the Atmasa4ti. [...] At the some time the frequency of the use of arms rind of the implication of the educated dossers in brolly undouldedly points to 'the development° of a higher degree of orgunizatiOn in crime, while on the nth& hand, owing to measures of retrenchment due to the influence of public opinion in Bengal, no correspond- ing development has been possible in Zbec,organization of the police. [...] Phe abolition of the Detective Training School, the withdrawal of gazetted officers from certain subdivisions, the restriRions pinned In touring and the transferende of the work of the Criminal Tribes Section to the districts have resulted in an increase of the respohsi- bilities of the thrum officer with no addition to the facilities nt his disposal; and in this respect it is interesting to compa