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 March 22 1920

The Act goes on to make the very important provision which seriously qualifies the above method of calculating the annual fair rent that excepting when circumstances which render an increase equitable are proved to the satisfaction of the Court the fair rent shall not exceed the rent at which the dwelling was let on the first day of January 1915. [...] Regarding the general effect of the Act we need only quote the finding in the Repot of the inter-State Commission of the Commonwealth dealing with Prices of July 1919 where under the sub-heading Rent the Commission records the conclusion that the tetkhas been a formiable bulwork against raising rents where no additional service is given by way of accommodtion or equipment and this deterre [...] The -reason may be that in such cases the police is the real prosecutor and it is their look-out to produce the evidence in support of the case for the prosecution. [...] Of course it goes without saying that it is the bounden duty of the prosecution to produce before the Court all the available evidence and the testimony of the complainant is surely a valuable piece of evidence and the police should always have him examined if possible but it does not follow that in a case where owing to unavoidable circumstances the examination of the complainant is not possible [...] 420 I. P. C. and the conviction was uheld by the Sessions Judge of 24-Pergannahs Held—That the real dispufe between the parties is whether the balance of the account which was due from the Petitioner to the coplainant's firm had in fact been settled and it looks to be more of the nature of a civil dispute which ought to be settled in the Civil Court than used as a basis of a criminal char