The Calcutta Weekly 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 15 1922

The jurisdiction of the Indian High Courts to issue the writ of habeas corpus is derived from the Supreme Courts and it is therefore imporant to trace the origin and the extent of the exercise of the power by these Courts. [...] The present article therefore deals only with the sources of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the limitations to which it was subject from time to time.. [...] 9 the power of the Supreme Court to issue the writ of Habeas corpus was transmitted to the High Court (13) ; it was issued to the jail Superintendent (14) law officers (15) etc. [...] These Appropriation Accounts which contain either detailed observations or a brief list of explantions of the variations between expenditure and grant under the signature of the Accounts Officer of the Department concerned are submited to the House of Commons by the Comptroller and Auditor-General who attaches to each acetint first a certificate that the account has been examined and kai [...] Frauds when they occur and the means taken to deal with them are specially brought to the notice of the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons in the Annual Appropriation Report of the Coptroller and Auditor-General.