The Calcutta Weekly Notes January 23 & 30 1950

Fittingly he got the prizes of the profession he was AdvocatGeneral of Bengal Law IVIemt.er of the then Governor-General's Executive Coucil and from 1937 to 1945 when the Federal Court was instituted under the prvisions of the Government of India Act 1935 he was India's first Advocate-Genral. [...] C. W. N.] As soon as the Constitution of India was adopted in the Constituent Assembly in.November 1949 the Parliament of the United Kingdom considered a Bill for the purpose of making " provision as to the operation of the Law in relation to India and persons and things belonging to or in any way connected with India in view of India's becoming a Republic while remaiing a member of the Com [...] United Kindom and of the Colonies and the Act scures that everything in that law is to rmain as it would have been if the change due to the formation of the Republic had not been made. [...] In the case of India her statesmen havenshrined in the Constitution the declartion of human rights of which personal liberty is the first and foremost. [...] India will pass her enactment with the knowledge that the law of the United Kindom already ensures full rights and privleges for the nationals of the Republic if she chooses to make provision for Commowealth citizenship similar to that contained in the United Kingdom Nationality Law of 1948.