The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday March 1 1943

In the circumstances the evidence implicating the two accused persons obviously needed close scrutiny and the need was certainly not lessened by the fact that for come uneplained reason the police were not proceeing against the named assailants at all. [...] The evidence consisted of the testimony of witnesses who claimed to have seen the acused persons running away from the place of occurrence. [...] Among them were mebers of the household of the deceased and seeing that the assault on him had been comitted at his house it was at least curious if not worse that the names of the accused persons had not found place in the first iformation. [...] The learned Judge too sat through the examination of the witnesses without troubling himself and the reason as given by himself in his Letter of Refeence was that since there had been an earlier trial he thought that all the weak points in the prosecution case were by that time known to the defence. [...] Indeed in cases where the implication of the accused apears to have been a belated one it is the duty of the Court to look beyond the evdence given in the box and probe into the record of antecedent events.