THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE
KING-EMPEROR APPELLANT; AND BENOARI LAL SARMA AND OTHERS RESPONDENTS.
ON APPEAL FROM THE FEDERAL COURT OF INDIA.
1944 Nov. 6.
VISCOUNT SIMON L.C., LORD ROCHE, LORD PORTER, LORD GODDARD and SIR MADHAVAN NAIR.
IndiaEmergency legislationSpecial criminal courtsConstitutional validityIntra vires the Governor-General Government of India Act, 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 42) (read with the India and Burma (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1940 (3 & 4 Geo. 6, c. 33, s. 1, sub-s. 3)), s. 72 of sched. IX. Special Criminal Courts Ordinance, No. II. of 1942 (as amended by Ordinances Nos. XXIV., XLII. and LXI. of 1942).

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