The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday June 17 1918

We understand that the Government of India at the suggestion of the Governor in Coucil of Bombay is contemplating the incorpoation of the provisions of the English Criminal Evidence Ad r(61 and 62 Vict. [...] Before considering the desirability of the itroduction of the English Act into India we shall in the first place consider the quetion whether sec. [...] When popular education is sufficiently advanced in this country when Magistrates and Judges come to be recruited from amongst the practiing members of the Bar and when the judiciary become independent of the executive then and not till then may the provisions of the English Criminal Evidence. [...] The decree of the District Judge is set aside and the case remanded to him to have the appeal re-heard. [...] The lower Courts held that the Petitioners were not landlords at the time when they caused the holding to be sold in execution of their rent decree and hence were not entitled to the benefit of ec.