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 May 3 1926

The note referred to above goes on to state :- "The other factor in reducing the number of persons unecessarily confined in prison is the application of the provsions of the Probation of Offenders Act 1907 which enables the courts to release en probation persons who are found guilty of crimes and offences. [...] in view of the special circumstances of the case the court did not feel justitied in referring the question for decision to a Pull Bench the following obsevations. [...] It is of the.utmost importance that the practice and procdure of the Courts should be well-defined and clearly understood and that in the Mofussii Judges should not be compelled to waste their energy in endeavouring to ascertain the 'pratice they are to follow from a number of appaently diverse decisions whi0 can only be redered consistent (if at all) by the exercise of the most subt [...] The High Court held (hat the said Government-order had not the force of law and made the declaration asked for subject only to the right of -a congregation engaged bona fide in public worship to be protected from disturance and to the authority of the Magistrate to regulate the exercise of that right for the prservation of the peace. [...] The people in the right have a right to count upon the protection of law and the help of the police in the reasonable exercise of their rights.