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 Short Notes of Important Decisions of Other High Courts in India Monday January 11 1932

We would invite in this connection the attention of the Govenment of India to the Recommendations of the Repressive Laws Committee which were accepted by the GovernoGeneral in Council by a Resolution of the Government of India Home Deparment and published in the Gazette of India Extraw.dinary on the 19th of September 1921. [...] It has been pointed out to us that for the protection of the frontiers of India and the fulfilment of the responsibilities of the Government of India in relation to Indian States there must be some enactment to arm the Exective with powers to restrict the movem:nts and activities of certain persons who though not coming within the scope of any criminal law have to be put under some measure [...] We are in [act satisfied of the continued necesity for providing for the original object of this Regulation in so far as it was expressly declareit to be ' the due maintenance of the alliances formed by the British Government with Foreign Powers the preservation of tranquillity in the territories of the Native Princes entitled to its protection and the security of the British Dominions from f [...]. We therefore rcommend the amendment of Regulation III of 1818 limiting its application to the ojects outlined above." At the conclusion of the Report the Comittee while recommending the repeal of some statutes and deferring the repeal of othe"s such as the Prevention of S:ditious Meetings Act re-affirmed that the scone of Bengal. [...] the same canot be said with regard to arrest of British subjects within British India as their opertion has been limited by the Resolution of the Government of India Since arrests made under these Regulations cannot under 491 (3) of the Code of Criminal Procdure be questioned in any Court of law it is all the more the reason that that the Government of India should not depart from the