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The Calcutta Weekly Notes June 27 1949

1949

Towards the end of April it appears the pulley and the steel cable refused to work but the Public Works Department who are responsible for the maintenance of the High Court building and were asked immediately by the High Court to put the matter right reported inability to get the necessary permit for a new cable from the Steel Controller with the result that the flag-staff could not be used. [...] The Mahatma Gandhi murder trial has end id and according to the judgment just deaered of the Full Bench of the East Punjab High Court where the case had gone on appeal two of the accused are to die two are acquitted and the rest sentenced to life-imprisonment though in the case of one of them clemency has been recommened. [...] The two trials at Delhi and at Simla were conducted with the dignity and fainess that in any case behove the judiciary and was especially in keeping with the character of the man with whose venerable name the trial has been associated. [...] V The wages of sin the scriptures tell us is death and the law fittingly has taken the same view in the case of Mahatma Gandhi's murderers. [...] The highest judiciary in that country however is atempting to restore something like justice to the ordering of mutual relationships and so we read of a statement by the Presdent of the Southern State University of Kentucky that the ban on negro students has been lifted in order to "comply with a Federal Court order." Other similar instances of U. S. Courts seeking to enforce the Negro's
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The Calcutta Weekly Notes June 27 1949
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