Council of State Debates Friday 21st September 1928 Official Report

THE HONOURABLE SIR EBRAHIM H. JAFFER : Will the Goernment be pleased to state : (a) The qualifications which are required for the registration of the name of a meat contractor in the list of approved contractors kept by the Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport Bombay ? (b) The names of the approved contractors at present on the list of the Bombay District ? (c) Out of these how many a [...] MAHENDRA PRASAD : (a) Has the qttention of the Government been drawn to a passage in the recent judgment of the Chief Justice of the Patna High Court wherein he says Having regard to the habits of the people in this particular part of the world where the giving of false evidence however deplorable it may be is not considered an offence which is fatal to a man's reputation to say the least of it [...] REFUSAL TO GRANT TO 17 CLERKS OF THE NON-MIGRATORY PORTION OF THE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POSTS AND TELEGRAPHS OF THE CONCESSIONS GRANTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRANSFER OF THE HEAQUARTERS FROM CALCUTTA TO DELHI. [...] In the Statement of Objects and Reasons it is mentioned that " the amenment states in precise terms the fact implicit in section 4 of the Code that the Letters Patent of the High Courts override the provisions of section 98 of the Code." As regards section 4 of the Civil Procedure Code that was explained by the Judicial Committee sometime ago and there it was mentioned that " any special f [...] Now if it be so that the Letters Patent here override the provision of the Civil Procedure Code under section 4 as explained in that case by the Judicial Committee what is the necessity of putting in this addtional sub-clause ? My further objection to the acceptance of the superiority of the Letters Patent in an Act of the Legislature of this description is that the power which the Crown exer