Serious Objections

WE believe the law in vogue in the Jammu and Kashmir territories is the same in all essential respects as in this province and we fail to see why high offices in the State should be filled from provinces where different laws and customs prevail. At all events such is the case with the United Province and even a lawyer shifting to the Punjab from there has to pass a special test in the special laws of this province. Such an appointment also implies in some sense that the Punjab is not in a position to supply the high and exacting standard of qualification which is demanded for service in the State. Even in the judicial department the Punjab has furnished to the Chief Court its own Judges and an officiating Chief Judge, and any number of District and Sessions Judges who can hold their own with their compeers of the other provinces.