The Calcutta Weekly Notes June 7 1948

No iprovement however of any kind has been introduced either in the system of aministration of justice in the Central Children Court or in the amenities prvided by the Government fothe juvenile delinquents who are detained pending trial in the House of Detention in course of the last 30 years of their existence. [...] Committee are inter alia the f olloing :—(a) In many cases the Magistrates do not seem to appreciate the implications of the Bengal Children Act ; (b) the police do not often take interest in the quick diposal of these cases; (c) the police make delay in sending challans and (d) the winesses are not produced in time with the result that the cases are adjourned from day tc clay. [...] In their Report the Committee have rcommended fareaching reforms involing among other things radical changes in the administration of the House of Dtention change of the site to a place with a few bighas of land in the outskirts of Cacutta—a place without lock-bars and no high walls with plagrounds all round the place to be used both as a House of Dtention and a Reformato [...] butt Mazumdar Stated at the Press Coference that the Government proposed to draw up schemes for future working o the House of Detention and the Central Chidren Court on the basis of the Report of the Barman Committee. [...] Some of the Congress leaders who were instrumental in passing the resolutions for redistribution are now in power but are scrupulously silent on the legitimate dll-land which has been and is still being 'made by Bengal for the inclusion' of the Bengali-speaking areas of Bihar and Orissa in the. territories of West Bengal.