The Calcutta Weekly Notes June 20 1949

Whis there going to be in the new constitution discrimination in regard to the age at which Judges of the proposed Supreme Court and of the I Iigh Courts repectively are to retire:' If bright souls in the Constituent Assembly think sixty to be the age when if not earlier "senility " sets in how is it that a Supreme Court Judge can continue his senile pranks till sixty ive ? Of course [...] We call for retraction of such provisions which are seriously detrmental to the interests of the judiciary' and to the entire system of law in our country. [...] interest of the State and Society citizens should not he deprived of the services of the ablest men in the prfession of law simply on the ground of age when there is no similar interdict in the 120"Vol. [...] All Idia's eyes were riveted on the bye-election since a former member of the Congress Working Committee had plainly thrown out a to the Congress and appealed to the electorate to return him in prefeence to the nominee of an organisation which after the achievement of political idependence and the formation by itself of Governments at the Centre and in the prvinces had pursued such [...] This is why we are disturbed to read the Press report of a speech made by Pandit Nehru to the Congress Assembly Party where he is stated to have declared that the defeat of the Congress candidate in the South Calcutta bye-election could not be taken as the verdict of the masses.