The Calcutta Weekly Notes December 9 1946

Bengal will to-day feel an inordinate pride in the formation of the Constituent Assembly as this National Assembly is the embodiment of the final fruition of the aims and aspirations of those ardent Bengalee nationalists who were the pioneers of the freedom movement in India and who from the very birth of the Indian National Congress were in the vanguard of the fight for India’s liberty great Ben [...] All India will sincerely regret that.Nlahatma Gandhi the father of modern Idian nationalism may not be present at the inaugural session of the Constituent Assembly as he has still to continue to live in the villages in the unhappy District of Noakhali to minister to the needs of suffeing humanity. [...] There are only two other points in this long judgment that are of interest to the profession The first one is the admissibility of the evidence of certain witnesses to prove that the Kumar died " in the evening and not at midnight. [...] 114 of the Evidence Act that the request was authrized by.those in charge of the " dead body." of the Kumar. [...] In the face of Article 142 of the Limittion Act the only conclusion from this judgment of the Privy Council would seem to be that any person in possession as heir to another supposed to be but not really dead holds that possession on behalf of the latter.