The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday December 4 1933

The clerks of advocates and solictors are well-known to the Court peons and if the police officers present in Court would regulate the admission to the Courts by refeence to the Court peons or the barristers and solicitors who have business there much of the inconvenience experienced by them may be obviated. [...] His Majesty referred to the work of the Joint Committee in connection with the White Paper Scheme Of the new Indian Constitution and said that the Committee would be reconstituted for giving a legislative form to the recommendtions of the Committee so that the new costitution might be embodied in a Constitution Act in the course of the next year. [...] But unfortunately the learned Judge began his judgment by saying that the accused had been tried by " a jury which consisted of 3 Hindus and 2 iVJahommedans " resulting in a verdict of " guilty " by a majority of 3 to 2; and later on between his summary of the evidence and criticism of the Judge's charge his Lordship interposed the following observation : " The accused being Mahommedans and the [...] The second observation of the learned Judge that the accused being Mahommedans and the girl a Hindu the composition of the jury was unfortunate raises a grave quetion. [...] The witnesses against the accused were mainly Mahomedands and His Lordship himself finds that in the charge to the jury the trial Judge had not fully explained the weaknesses of the prosecution case.