The Calcutta Weekly Notes June 14 1948

The opinion of the Judges and the Home Secrtaries who are responsible for the adminitration of justice and prevention of crime cannot be lightly brushed aside and it rmains to be seen whether the opinion of the humanists or the administrators of justice or that of the mass whose opinion in the Gallup poll which might have reflected its sadistic impulse which used to find epression in [...] The action of the Home Secrtary has been characterised by the Lord Chief Justice as the exercise of the dipensing power under the Stuart Kings which had been repudiated by Parliament ever since the clays of James II and that the 12taL LIM THE CALCUTTA Home Secretary had attempted to alter the law by administrative action. [...] In construing the articles of the Limtation Act the first and the third columns of the article should be read together and it the facts of a particular case do not fall within any one of those columns of an article that article would not apply. [...] If the minor is married the husband becomes the guardian of the peson of the minor but the testamentary guadian would continue to be the guardian regarding the properties. [...] Although the fact of previous convitions is an element in determining the setence essential regard should be had to the facts of the case the gravity of the office and the circumstances in which it was comitted in assessing the punishment and the mere circumstance that there were previous convictions should not result on the inflition of a sentence that is far out of prportion to