The Calcutta Weekly Notes January 13 1947

We blieve that the assistance which Sir Sudhansu and his juniors and counsel and aindicates for the Congress and the Mahsahha and the Muslim League will render to the members of the Commission will be of immense value to them and will enable them to write their report. [...] If it was impossible for the GovernoGeneral and Viceroy to comply with the dmand of the public in August 1946 for the exercise of his special powers for the restortion of law and order in autonomous Bengal under the Government of India Act how does the Chief Law Officer of the Central Government appear before a Commission appointed by a Provincial Government to inquire into a purely pr [...] 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code clearly enjoins upon the Magistrate recording a confession the duty of warning the accused in the manner stated in the sub-section itself and prohibits the Magistrate from proceeding with the rcording of the confession until he has quetioned the person making it and from the answers given has satisfied himself that the confession that is about to be made wo [...] 145 of the Evidence Act must as a matter of law be complied with if the pupose as it usually is is to contradict the evidence of the deposing witness at the trial; otherwise the admission would be illegal. [...] The whole object of the section is frustrated if the statement made by the accused is so cut down as to exclude any part of it which connects the object discovered with the crime and the accused with the commission of the crime.