The Calcutta Weekly Notes December 19 1949

The matter however is not quite so simple and in the circtuustances the best thing for the two Dominions to do was to put the matter before an impartial tribunal Inda and Pakistan contributing one of their own Judges and an acknowledged authority on international law in the person of Lord Justice Bagge as president. [...]..nay explain the belated statement But to say that a statement made ten days ur ten months after the occurrence is a statement made at or about the time the fact took place is to obliterate the current dictionary and also to obliterate the distinction between the first part and the second part of the section Even under the English law in which our correspondent takes a keen delight the evidence [...] In the case of Tobarak the evidence fortunately disclosed that the girl cou:el not make and statement at or about the time the fact took place. [...] You are sure to find an unhealthy repletion of evidence to the effect that the girl instead of feeling shy narrated the details of the alleged outrage with a brutal frankness to all and sundry men and women who.ithabited that locality It doea not matter that Tome of the people were utter strangers to her' It does not matter that there is no writtea record of the alleged declaration. [...] at or about the time when the fact took place." The manifest and clear intention of the provision appears to be that the statement is to be made immediately and if that is not possible for something unavoidable or beyond control it must be made at the earliest possible opportunity or to use an expression found in many.