The Criminal Law Journal of India 1940

This increase in spite of a decrease in the average daily population is due to the higher prices of grains and also to the supply of chadars and brass vessels to the prisoners. [...] They offer occasion for large additions to the volminous litrature on the subject—after the war Meanwhile the sound way to take the matter is to realize that the British Comonwealth of Nations is less an empire than a league and to be gratified at the great measure of unanimity with which its members go into the war undestanding its causes and its aims and the necessity for sane commun [...] 41 THE CRIMINAL LAW JOURNAL 5 rules as appear to it to be necessary or expedient for securing the defence of British India the public safety the maintenance of public order or the efficient prosecution of war or for maintaining supplies and services essential to the life of the comunity. [...] (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) the rules may provide for or may empower any authority to make orders providing for all or any of the following matters namely:— (i) ensuring the safety and welfare of His Majesty's forces ships and aircaft and preventing the prosection of any purpose likely to prjudice the operations of His Majesty's for [...] Our respectful comment on this is that the construction put on the scope of the section is in keeping with the general theme of the preventive and pre-cautionary proceedings mentioned in the Code.