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 December 16 1940

A census will be taken in 1941 and the result of the operations will have a far-reaching effect on the composition of not only the Governments of the different provinces but also of the services. [...] Even if this aspect of the matter be put on one side the necesary delay in obtaining sanction will cause the evidence to disappear for as our corespondent points out " there is every chance of the relevant records being put up into slips for the preparation of the statistcal details of the Census Reports." Then again the A Pt makes books. [...] If there is the least delay in applying for or getting the necessary sanction or in starting the prosecution there is every chance of the relevant rcords being cut up into slips for the preparation of the statistical details of the Census Reports. [...] Evidence was admitted at the trial to the effect that one of them while in the custody of the police stated to the second officer that the knife with which he and the other two accused had murdered the deceased was at his house and that he could give it to the police officer if he were taken to the house. [...] The question which was referred to the Full Bench was as follows : " What portion if any of the statement to the effect that the knife with which he and the other two acased had murdered M was at his house uder a heap of pyal alleged to have been made by the Appellant T to the Sub-Inspetor of police R is admissible in evidence under sec.