The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday February 1 1943

168A of the Bengal Teancy Act has turned out for the landlords to be “a remedy worse than the disease.” Why he should imagine that the section was ever intended to serve the landlords as a remedy we are unable to say. [...] The executing Court after waiting for a while (say a month or so) dismisses the execution case as disposed of.' The decree-holder is not permitted to withdraw the money deposited by the auction-purchaser as purchasmoney on the ground that the sale is not confirmed neither does he succeed in getting an order for re-sale as this is notexpressly enacted nor is he allowed to get an order fo [...] If the auction-purchaser pays in the purchase money and is therafter found to move no further in most cases he will be doing so in collusion with the judgment-debtor and in order to further the interests of the latter. [...] 556 does not apply because proceedings for punishing contempt are taken not with a view to protect the Court as a whole or the individual Judges of the Court from a repetition of the attack but with a view to protect the public and specially those who either voluntarily or by compulsion are subject toothe jurisdiction of the Court from the mischief they will incur if the authority of the Court be [...] The gravamen is an endeavour to shake the confidence of the public in the Court.