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 8 1925

(1) where there is an accused in the sense of a person accused of an offence and (2) where an enquiry is being held against a person who is not accused of an offence and the depositions of witnesses are to be read over to them in the presence of the accused only in the former class of cases. [...] 145 of the Code so far as to make it obligatory for the deposition to be read over to the witness but it need not be read over to him in the presence of the parties to the proceeding for they are not “ accused.” Their Lordships forming the majority of the Full Bench have taken a practcal view of the matter and laid down a procdure which is expedient and free from as much difficulty in its a [...] Had it been the latter the puzzle would not have arisen to the great relief of all concerned but as it is the words used by the legislature surely include within the purview of sec. [...] procedure Which the minority of the Judges of the Full Bench have taken to be what has been laid down by the section may be beset with various difficulties in its practical application but the proper remedy i4 the amendment of the Code which is pUrely the business of the legislature. [...] To THE EDITOR CALCUTTA \VEIEK IA NOTES." I beg to draw the attention of the Hop'ble Legal Remembrancer and eilso of the Secretary to the Government of Bengal through the medium of your journal for an interpretation of the Circular No.