1042 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava : In this list it is in clause 2 and my amendment applies to it only.
Mr. President : You can leave it out for the present.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I do not accept the amendment. It is quite unnecessary.
Shri B. Das (Orissa : General) : I beg to move :
“That is sub-clause (1) of Clause 2, the words ‘or otherwise’ be deleted.”
Sir, it is very humiliating to me...
- The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I do not think this amendment is very necessary, because the jurisdiction of the Privy Council may be derived also from the prerogative conferred by Statute. Therefore the words ‘or otherwise’ are quite necessary. We want to put an end completely to the jurisdiction not merely arising from the prerogative but from other sources also.
Mr. President : I will now put the amendments to vote.
[All amendments were rejected, clause 2 was added to the Bill.]
Clause 3
† Shri T. T. Krishnamachari (Madras : General) : My friend’s remarks can be cut short if I explain there are really no appeals pending before the Privy Council from the Federal Court.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : There is no pending appeal.
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava : I heard from Dr. Ambedkar and Dr. Bakhshi Tek Chand that there is no appeal pending, but there may be other proceedings. My submission is that if there are proceedings whereby remedy is possible to be given the persons concerned should not be deprived of their rights, merely because we are doing away with the jurisdiction of the Privy Council.
‡The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I do not think it is necessary to accept the amendment moved by my Friend. Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava. As my Friend, Mr. Krishnamachari, has stated, there are really no appeals pending before the Privy Council from the Federal Court, and consequently it is quite unnecessary to make any saving as proposed by my Friend, Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava, because nobody is really adversely affected, there being no pending cases.
*CAD, Vol. IX, 17th September 1949, p. 1597.
† Ibid., p. 1598.
‡ Ibid., p. 1599.