The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday November 19 1928

After the rains cease when the weather clears up the fleecy clouds float about the deep afire blue of the Indian sky the rays assume a golden hue by reflection from the yellowish tint of autumn leaves and the corn fields and night after night the moon in keeping with the season’s glory lits up the face of nature with a rare flood of silvery rays the people in India have from time immemorial cel [...] But it is well-known that after the outbreak of the War when there was a rcrudescense of some revolutionary activities at the instance of enemy states which led to the passing of the Defence of India Act the Government of Bengal approached the Chief Justice to lend the services of some High Court Judges for holding non-judicial enquiries regarding tfeasonable activities of suspects from poli [...] he quoted the opinion of the Lord Chief Justice the Master of the Rolls and the President of the Probate Division as to how this rule of law has safe-guarded the liberty of the subject in England. [...] The English law forms the basis of the criminal law of almost all English speaking countries and the lacy prevailing in them had most of the defects of the English law. [...] The Islamic law was the first to reject that graduated scale of money compenstions for injuries to the person which formed the prominent feature of every early system of law as well as the first to refuse the adoption of that scale of penalties which formed the ground-work of the law of pro7 perty in Rome.