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The Calcutta Weekly Notes June 13 1949

1949

We draw the attention of the tion'ble the Chief Justice to the report that has been brought to us and we are sure all proper measures will he taken in the matter Independence of the Judiciary. [...] Rightly it refers to a tendency regrettably prominent lately on the part of the aministration in this country to detract from the status and dignity of the judiciary and to whittle down the powers rights and jurisdiction of the judges who after all can be trusted to take a dispassionate view of matters at issue and act as a real umpire am between the administration and the citzenry. [...] We know of instances where the provincial Government has gratuitously poked its nose in the matter of appointments to the High Court Bench forgetting that in a spirit of elementary good sense it should have left it to the Chief Justice as being the person most fitted to make the choice. [...] When a memoradum bearing the signature of some of the greatest jurists in the country expresses concern over the proneness of provincial Governments to treat the High Court as a part of the Home Department something must indeed be very rotten in our State. [...] The proceedings of the Constituent Assembly to which we shall have many an occasion to refer do not suggest that either in the minds of the Government or of the majrity of the legislators there is a lively sense of the paramount importance of an indpendent judiciary.
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The Calcutta Weekly Notes June 13 1949
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