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 May 27 1912

We ought however to mention that the charges at the trial as also some other facts disclosed in the case such as the inter6olations in the Station Register and the Division Register have brought serious discredit on the methods of the Subordinate Police in Calcutta. [...] TURNING TO THE SECULAR SIDE OF THE CASE WE are glad that their Lordships of the Judicial Comittee have affirmed the decision of the Courts in India dismissing the Plaintiff's suit upon the merits as well as on the ground of estoppel. [...] A further commendable feature of the judgment is that the finding of their Lordships on the evidence closes the door to further litigtion by persons other than the widow and claiming to be the reversionary heirs of the deceased Raja. [...] It was contended that as the charge was one of perjury in the course of judicial proceedings the proceedings in this case being wholely fictitious and the Plaintiff and the Defendants being imaginary persons the affidavit and 'allegations in the case were only imaginary and did not constitute or amount to perjury in the proper sense of the term. [...] 69 Land Clauses Consolidation Act in pari nzateria English decisions on that Act prior to the Indian Act coulcrbe relied upon to understand the intention of the Legislature The Court therefore considered the principles laid down by English decisions on the question as to how far the capital may be available for repairs and held that the positron of the parties ought to he the same as if the land