The Calcutta Weekly Notes March 5 1945

As the Coriiittee is due to leave Calcuttin a clay or two We think the examination of important witnesses is concluded already and evidence of any of the Judges is not going to be taken. [...] We shall add that it was due to the Hindu Community that its representatives on the Bench who have had the greatest oppotunity of seeing the existing Hindu Law in its actual operation in all the varied circumstances of life and who by reason of their special learing and judicial outlook are best able to judge lies equities And inequities should have been ivited by the Committee to give [...] In the present case in partcular there could be no question of leaving out the particular Defendant who was one of the co-sharers in a suit for partition. [...] The Subordinate Judge held she was because said the learned Judge she had not denied the avement of the Plaintiff that she was looking after the properties on behalf of her father. [...] The position therefore is that persons in British India who are under the necessity of going to law for some matter in which some one now in enemoccupied territory is in some way concerned cannot do so to any purpose since their suits must inevitably come to a standstill almost no sooner than filed because of the impossibility of effecting service on the Defendant residing in a country occ