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 February 12 1923

And lastly the applicant has to satisfy the Court that the detention is under such circumstances that it amounts to an offence—a burden by no means easy to discharge having regard to the fact that in most cases the applicant is not likely to have any firshand information as to the circumstances of the detention particularly in those cases where the detention is by a police officer. [...] 61 of the same Code provides that " no police officer shall detain in custody a person without %warrant for a rongor reriod than under all the circumstances of the case is reasonable and such a period shall not. exceed twenty-four hours exclusive of the time necessary for the journey from the place of airrest to the Magistrate's Court." But. [...] Since the' transference of the Government of the whole country to the Crown there exists no reason for perpetuating this distinction between the Mofussil and the Presidency Towns. [...] BY this proposal the Civil and would work 32 aays more in a year and their out-turn of work would be increased by more than 7:2-days." In making this recommendtion "for equalising the number of holidays for both branches of the Provincial Service the members of the Committee obviously ovelooked the fact that in consideration of the larger number of holidays enjoyed by judicial officers th [...] On appeal it was contended that one of the two heirs of Matilal was not properly reprsented and two of the ten heirs of Ramlal were not properly served with notices and the suit was not maintainable against some of the heirs of the original tenants and further that the suit was barred by Or.