The Calcutta Weekly Notes September 16 1946

Suhrawardy manage to have an interview with the President of the very Commission which will be required by the public in Bengal to examine the doings of the Ministry prior to during and after the commision of the horrid Calcutta massacre? [...] Suhrawardy took place to the effect that the President of the Commission has been given powers to have “full discretion to decide the procedure to he followed in the conduct of the inquiry and in particular whether the evidence or any of it will be heard in public or in. [...] (1) It shall be the duty of every police officer (b) to the best of his albility to obtain intellgenee concerning the commission of cognisable offences See 7. The Comm a Justice of the act as a justice the preservation crimes and the of offenders in a..-3 iagistrate of"cix THE CALCUTTA WEEKLY NOTES. [...] In our opinion the onus of proving that all necessary precautions for the protection of the lives and properties of citizens on the Direct Action day and on the days following were taken lies acording to all well-known rules of evidence on the Minister in charge of Law and Order and Le must be required by the Commission to go into the box first and to submit to cross-examination. [...] On the failure of the Defendant to return 'the machine the Plaintiff brought the suit for the return of the same and in the alternative claimed a sum of money as its value.