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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 21 1926

1926

A reference to the proceedings of the Legilative Council upon the Criminal Procedure Bill of.187.2 shows that the departure from the English law was deliberately made rightly or wrongly in view of the peculiar circumstances of this country. [...] The speech of the then Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal in the course of the discussien on the Bill is interesting :— The criminal law was a.taw of overwhelming importance in this country—not only the law for the administrtion of criminal justice but the executive aministration as carried on through Magistrates. [...] The prevailing ideas on the subject of criminal law have been somewhat affected by the Enlish law and the departures from the rules of the English law which the Committee recomended were founded 6n this ground that many of the prominent parts of the English law were based on political considerations the f those familiar rules of criminal law being not to bring the criminal to justice but t [...] 46 of the Galcutta Police Act which authorises the issue of a warrant by the Commissioner of Police for the search of a house which he has reason to helieVe is used as a common gaining house point out that the expression " reasoh to believe " is entirely different from the expression " carve to supect." The former connotes a great deal more than is conveyed by the latter. [...] The Appellant contended that time ran from the date of the decree of the Court of first instance but both Courts in India held that time only ran from the decree of the Appellate Court.
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