1034 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Fifteen to twenty gold mohurs per day for civil appeals according to the nature of the case, but in cases in which important questions are involved higher fees have been paid to counsel but in no case exceeding forty gold mohurs.
In cases where the Attorney-General is briefed on behalf of the State Governments, his fees are 100 gold mohurs per day, and where he appears on behalf of the Central Government no fees are charged except in cases where costs are recovered from the opposite party.
In cases where other counsels are engaged directly by a State Government they are paid fees by that Government direct.
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*COOCH BEHAR (POPULATION)
3235. Shri S.C. Samanta: (a) Will the Minister of Law be pleased to State the names and number of villages with population figures in Cooch Behar in West Bengal, where there are only one, two or three voters in each village for the coming General Election.
(b) What were the corresponding population figures in those villages according to the census of 1941 ?
The Minister of Law (Dr. Ambedkar): (a) and (b) I understand from the Election Commission that there are 25 villages in Cooch Behar which have not more than 3 voters each, entered in the electoral rolls. A Statement containing the names of these villages, together with the number of voters in each, entered in the rolls at the time of preliminary publication, is placed on the Table. (See Appendix XXII, Annexure No. 19). The population figures for these villages are not available here but I am trying to get them from the local authorities. I should also add that the period for presentatin of claims expired only on the 31st March last, and the Election Commission has no information so far, as to the number of persons enrolled as voters on the basis of such claims.
*P. D., Vol. 7, Part I, 18th April 1951, p. 3318.