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 18 1925

1 in She absence of a specific provisidn to the contrary the Code of Criminal Procedure does not apply to the police in the towns of Calcutta and Bombay and that being so investigations into cognizable cases undertaken by the police without the order of a Magistrate are exemped from the operation of Chap. [...] may be left out of considertion and the net result of the amendment is that in Calcutta as before there is no law regulating the recording of confessions—a state of things which the legislature surely tended to put a stop to but it is very unfotunate that it has failed to express its intetion in the terms used in the Code. [...] The line of demarcation between the two classes of cases varies according to difference iv the temperament of the Judges and to the cnviionments they have been brought up in. [...] With respect to the Calcutta Small (Houses Court the Committee think that the present system of heariilg appeals by a Bench consising of the trial judge and of the Chief JiAlte is unsatisfiectoty. [...] The High Court on the application of the Respondent set aside tlfe award in favour of the Petitioner.