The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday December 6 1943

The judgment of the Privy Council in the case of Debi Prasad Sharma end others must therefore have been specially gratifying to the Allahabad High Court which is told by their Lordships that there was no contempt in the writings to which it had taken exception and that the Presence of an innuendo had been wrongly suspected. [...] The paper published the news item and in an editorial comment observed that if the allegation was true the Chief Justice had done a thing which would lower the pres-tige of the Courts. [...] The High Court after a largscale proceeding found the editor the printer and the correspondent to be all guilty of contempt called for an apology from them which was not offered and therupon sentenced one to imprisonment and the other two to fines. [...] XL VLi I. The judgment is a valuable one as on the one hand upholding the freedom of the press and on the other defining the true limits of contempt of Court. [...] For instance as rgards the market value of a building it is stated at pages 116-117 that " this does not mean that the value is the actual cost of erecting a similar structure less an amount equal to the depreciation of the building." The Privy Council however held in the case of Hari Chand v. Secretary of State (44 W. N. 5) that where a building was to be valued apart from the site for pu