The Calcutta Weekly Notes May 28 1951

When they came out on the street they were arrested by the detectives and one of them told the daughter—th Court took the view that the words were addressed both to the plaintiff and the daughter— that she had lifted some articles. [...] The Court of Appeal however found in favour of the plaintiff on the cause of acions for false imprisonment not on the ground as found by the trial Judge that the plaintiff had not been informed at the time of arrest of the reason for it but on the ground that the detaining of the plainiff for an hour at the defendant's store which was the false imprisonment alleged was unjustified. [...] Whilst the first amendment of the American Constitution laid down that "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the Press" the first amendment of the Indian Constitution is meant to permit encroachment on the freedom of speech and press which was guaranteed to the citizens as the first clause in the catalogue of cherished rights emboded in our Constitution. [...] But in fairness to the Bench and the Bar in India it should be pointed out that on the question of the validity or constitutionality of the Zemindari Abolition Statutes the High Courts have differed and an appeal has been filed by the Government to the Supreme Court. [...] Democracy will be reduced to a mockery if the Constitution is revised to the detriment of civil liberty before the will of the people is expressed through the new Parliament to be elected on the basis of adult suffrage.