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 November 10 1924

We accord our hearty welcome to the Bench the Bar the judiciary and the members of the legal profession all over India on the resumption of our duties at the begining of the legal year and oiler them our humble services and help in the administration of justice which is the noblest of all functions of the State on which its whole superstructure rests and which after all is the corner-stone [...] It is the Government of Idia who commuted the death sentence on Barendra to one of transportation not on the recommendation of the Judges and the jury who tried the case but at the instance of the Bengal Government. [...] We would therefore suggest to the Government of Bengal and the Government of India to witdraw the Ordinance and put the persons arrested thereunder to their trial before the ordinary Courts of law under the ordinary law of the land which would enable them to cope more effectively with the criminal activities of political offenders. [...] (1) may direct (a) the arrest without warrant of the peson in respect of whom the order is made at any place where he may be found by any police officer or other officer of Government to whom the order may be directed or endorsed by or under the general or special authority of the Local Government ; (b) the search of any place specified in the order which in the opinion of the Local Goerjime [...] XXV of the rode of Criminal Procedure which is to ensure the accuracy of the record and afford information to the accused as to what the evidence at the trial is compliance with sec.