The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday November 9 1908

THE PRONOUNCEMENT MADE BY His MAJESTY THE King-Emperor on the Jubilee of the Proclamation of 1858 by Queen Victoria of beloved memory on the assumption by Her of the Government of India from the East India Company cannot be regarded in the true sense of the term a Royal Proclamation. [...] Of these the most important are the observance of treaties and engagements with the Indian Princes ; the restriction on the extesion of the Indian territorial possessions ; assurance of peace and good government and consequent prosperity and advancement of the people of India ; the observance of same obligations by the British Crown to the Indian subjects as to the subjects of any other part o [...] The High Court will not intefere with the discretion of a Magistrate who has granted bail in a non-bailable case on the grounds of the delay of the commencement of the inquiry and the respectability of the accused where the prsecution after the Magisterial inquiry has begun does not tender evidence (if the accused's. [...] High Court to grant bail is not limited to the consideration of the question of the possibility of the accused absconding and that the strength or weakness of the evidence the gravity of the offence the punishment prescribed therefor the delay in recording evidence.the status in life of the accused his proprietary interests and other iportant circumstances are also factors in the decsi [...] B. it was held that the test to govern the discretion of the Court in granting bail is the probability of the prisoner's appearing at the trial though in applying that test the Court will he guided by the nature of the crime the severity of the punishment prescribed for it and the probability of a conviction.