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 January 25 1926

The keynote of the International Prison Congresa held in London early in August 1926 was the prevention of crime rather than the punishment of the offender and many of the deparMents of child welfare work in the United States in Europe and the Dominions and more recently in the South Ain SIALOP both directly and indirectly int vo thin aim in 45"xlvi THE CALCUTTA WEEKLY NOTES. [...] The point of difference in the views of the Judicial Cortimittee and the high Court arose regarding the mode of securing due respect for this personality of the image. [...] on the interest both of himself and of the mebers of the family entitled to worship incluing the four daughters of Jadulal to whom no share in the management of the worship has been allotted. [...] The legal custodians were clearly incapable of voicing the Will of the deity in view of their conflicting interests and the Committee accordingly directed that the case should be reconsidered the idol being rpresented by a disinterested next friend apointed by the Court and the female members of the family being made parties with a view to the framing of a scheme for the continuance of th [...] A deity is not an ifant but his spokesman will as in the case of the custodian of an infant's estate have to perform the duty of recommending such a course of action as may best accord with the dignity and honour of the god and the interests of his worshippers.