The Calcutta Weekly Notes December 22 1952

gestae It appears to rest ultimately on two propositions—that human utteance is both a fact and a means of comunication and that human action may be so interwoven with words that the significance of the action cannot be understood without the :orrelative words and the dissociation of the words from the action would impede the discovery of truth. [...] Under section 60 oral evidence must be direct that is to say—if it refers to a fact which could be heard it must be the evidence of the ;itness who says he heard If the statement of the witness is relevant under section 5 of the Evidence Act no objection can be raised as to the admissibility of this type of hearsay evidence. [...] In. Bibhabati v. Rantendra 51 C. W. N. 98 the question before the Judicial Committee was about the admisibility of the evidence of the four winesses conveniently referred to by the Judicial Committee as the Maitra group. [...] What the man who came into the common room of the Lowis Jubilee Sanitarium (not identified and not a witness in the case) said was a "fact" within the meainof section 3 of the Evidence Act. [...] Charts V and V1 indicate the provisions of the Schedules to the Indian Constitution coresponding to the S.:hedules to the Government of India Act 1935.