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 January 23 1911

Language and advocacy of this description on the part of the chief Latv Officer of the Crown is compromising to the Government and not at all edifying to the Bar of which he is the official leader. [...] The facts as stated in the petition were as follows :- The first Petitioner was the acting Superitendent of the Kheddah under the Government of Burmair; the second Petitioner was the acting Assistant Superintendent and the third Petitioner was the Head Clerk of the department. [...] The first Peitioner.was charged as follows :- Firstly that on the 9th day of December 1907 at Mymensingh being a public servant in the employ of the Government of Burman he was entrusted with the sum of Rs 15 coo the property of the said Government for the.purpose of making advances of pay to the sirdars mates and hunters of the temporary hunting establishment of the Kheddah department [...] " There is the evdence of the copies of the registered agreement on which the prosecution lay much stress and which they say affords the strongest corroboration of the evidence of those who say they were paid at the lower rates and there is the evidence of some—a few—of the Chittagongians that they were engaged at the lower rates. [...] In the present case the applicants have not shown the materials have not fully informed the Board of the facts nor have they even given the summary view of the course of the trial or of the evidence.