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SECTION VII QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 18th November 1947 to 28th September 1951 TABLE OF CONTENTS Serial No. List of Titles of Questions Page No. (1) Appeals from the High Courts in India ... 991 (2) Jurisdiction of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to decide Pending appeals ... 993 (3) Number of Cases tried by the Federal Court and Privy Council ... 994 (4) Constitution of the Federal Court ... 995 (5) Report of Hindu Law Codification Committee ... 996 (6) Misappropriation of Income by Hindu Charitable and Religious Trusts ... 997 (7) Number and Names of Tribunals appointed by Ministry of Home Affairs. ... 997 (8) Proposal for Reconstitution or Modification of Income-Tax Appellate Tribunal 999 (9) General Elections ... 1000 (10) List of Schedule Castes ... 1003 (11) Central Woolen Technological Institute 1005 (12) Income-Tax Appellate Tribunals ... 1008 (13) Scheduled Caste Employees in Ministry of Law ... 1009 (14) Advisory Committee on Hindu Code Bill 1010 (15) Salary and Allowances of the Members of Parliament ... 1012 (16) General Elections ... 1012 (17) General Elections ... 1015 (18) Government agents for Supreme Court ... ... 1019 (19) Muslim Personal Laws ... 1021

988 Serial No. List of Titles of Questions Page No. (20) Engagements of Lawyers in cases against the Union ... 1023 (21) Scheduled Caste Representatives ... 1024 (22) Delimitation of Committee Reports ... 1024 (23) General Elections ... 1025 (24) Electoral Rolls for Rural Areas in Delhi 1027 (25) Scrutiny of Central and State Law ... 1029 (26) Electoral Rolls ... 1030 (27) Lawyers in Supreme Court ... 1032 (28) Cooch Behar (Population) ... 1034 (29) Electoral Rolls ... 1035 (30) Manufacture of Ballot Boxes ... 1036 (31) Dissolution of Parliament ... 1038 (32) Electoral Rolls ... 1038 (33) West Bengal Legislature (Vacancies) ... 1039 (34) General Elections in Madras ... 1040 (35) General Elections in Orissa ... 1042 (36) Regional Commissioners ... 1043 (37) Fixing of Election Dates ... 1044 (38) Dates of General Election in States ... 1045 (39) Symbols for Political Parties ... 1048 (40) Electoral Rolls for General Elections ... 1049 (41) Women Voters and Electoral Rolls ... 1050 (42) Central Grants for Backward Classes ... 1050 (43) Grants for Promoting National Language 1052 (44) Mode of Voting at General Elections ... 1055 (45) Statutory and Non-Statutory Bodies ... 1056 (46) Elections in Snow-Clad Areas of Punjab 1057 (47) Manufacture of Ballot Boxes ... 1058 (48) Hindi Translation of Acts ... 1058 (49) Mock Elections ... 1061 (50) Objections to Electoral Rolls ... 1063

989 Serial No. List of Titles of Questions Page No. (51) Election Commissioners in States ... 1066 (52) Electoral Rolls ... 1067 (53) Mock Elections ... 1068 (54) Article 171(b) of the Constitution ... 1068 (55) Maps of Constituencies ... 1069 (56) Tribal Christians and General Elections 1071 (57) Officers in the Ministry of Law ... 1072 (58) List of Polling Stations ... 1072 (59) Leprosy ... 1075 (60) Lady Hardinge Medical College ... 1076 (61) Training of Midwives and Nurses ... 1078 (62) Emetine ... 1078 (63) Ayurvedic Research Institute ... 1079 (64) Directorate of Housing ... 1080 (65) Lepers ... 1081 (66) Hartal of Refugee Stall Holders ... 1083 (67) Petition of Mahila Samiti, Jaipur regarding Women Voters of Rajasthan. ... 1085 (68) Hindu Divorce ... 1086 (69) Prevention of Hindu Bigamous Marriages Act ... 1087

991PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS) (1) *APPEALS FROM THE HIGH COURTS IN INDIA. 4. Shri R. R. Diwakar : (a) Will the Honourable Minister of Law be pleased to state whether appeals from the High Court in India still lie to His Majesty in Council ? (b) If the answer to part (a) above be in the affirmative, are they governed by the same laws and regulations and rules as before ? (c) If the answer to part (a) above be in the negative, what is the form to which appeals are to be preferred from the decisions of the High Courts in different provinces ? (d) Are the appeals now pending before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to be heard and disposed of by them ? The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Yes. (b) Yes. (c) Does not arise. (d) Yes, unless a provision to the contrary is made in the new Constitution. Shri M. Ananthasayanam Ayyangar : What sort of Court do the present Government propose to set up for appeals from the High Court ? The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: That is not a matter for the Government to decide but for the Constituent Assembly. Shri M. Ananthasayanam Ayyangar : Is the Honourable the Law Member aware that in the new set up under the present Government of India Act and the Dominion Independence Act that with regard to appeals to the Privy Council the jurisdiction of the Privy Council may be abolished and vested in the Supreme Court ? . The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I do not know if the Government can take a decision when the Constituent Assembly is sitting for the purpose of defining the Constitution. * C.A. (Leg.) D., Vol. 1, Part I, 18th November 1947 pp. 70-71.