The Bengal Police Magazine. April-June 1939

The legislator in trying to prescribe punishinents identifies himself with the offended party and feels unconsciously may be his vengeful attitude towards the offender hence the -elm-lent of revenge in our present day penal code and the tendency to repeat the acts of the offender himself in the punishment. [...] We would be tempted at first to suppose that the murderous act is merely an act of revenge against the wrongdoer but in view of the cases cited before it would be wise to look for hidden motives even in such cases."122 THE BENGAL POLICE MAGAZINE I have given you illustrations of cases of murder where the motives belong to the different levels of consciousness begining from the absolutely unc [...] I INTRODUCTION This note is prepared with the earnest hope that it will be the means of bringing home to the investigating officer the great need for making full use of one of the means at his disposal in the prevention and detection of crime viz the Crime Map. [...] From the signs of Scorching of the blades of grass in a particular direction and the scattering of some of the fragments of burnt paper on that direction he can determine from which direction the wind blew at the time the fire was burning. [...] If the house of the complainant in this case happened to be within a reasonable distance of a Raiway Line the recording officer should make use of this fact with a view to enabling the complainant to remember the approximate time by drawing his attention to the rumbling of passing trains which owing to the proximity of the line would be audible from his house.