The Calcutta Weekly Notes August 12 1946

The police had a cetain case justifying the arrest he told the House 4. Am—a fantastic statement when one remebers that it was the first inescapable duty of the Leader of the House to assert its undoubted privileges and not to offer protection to a police officer so obviously and impudently in the wrong. [...] 1924 p. 115) points out: the arrest of a member in a civil cause. is void ab A similar imunity does not in general extend to offences which partake of a criminal character but it is important to notice that in the Sandys case (1938) the Committee of the House of Ccolmons accepted the broad view that immunity of members from the criminal law in respect of acts clone by them in t [...] The last appointment of the learned Judges up to the commencement of the Long Vacation set us wondering as to the reasons for the same and we pointed out that it would be very unfair if the appointments meant that they would cease to be Judges during the vacation. [...] Now that the Judicial Committee has cofirmed its original order that in the very special circumstances of the Bhowal case there would be no order as to the costs of the appeal our yearning for the full text of the judgment has been heightened. [...] The illness of the Respondent took suddenly a serious turn at the moment of his final triumph and in a few days after receipt of news of the Privy Coucil judgment the Bhowal Kumar was dead.