Alipore Bomb Trial, 1908-1910: Arguments in Courts and Judgements, Volume 2 critically examines the trajectory of colonial justice from committal inquiry stage to the hearing of the appeal in the High Court. Laws and procedures were violated more by design than due to inadvertence. Without any sanction from the Government, Magistrate Birley added section 121 IPC carrying death penalty to the charge. Beachcroft, the trial judge, upholding Birley’s decision, sentenced Barindra K Ghose and Ullaskar Datta to death and nine others to transportation for life. High Court dropped the unauthorised section and the sentences were suitably reduced. Although Aurobindo was acquitted in the Sessions trial, he was considered as “the most dangerous person” in India. To remove him from the political scene, a charge of sedition was brought, but the High Court quashed the complaint as the article of Aurobindo contained no ingredient of sedition. The correspondences, exchanged between the officials of the Local and the Federal Government and between the Viceroy and the Secretary of State for India, show the British Government was a prisoner of their own liberal law and justice reform. An astute analysis of the historic courtroom perorations of Chittaranjan Das, and other defence counsels viz. Bymokesh Chakraborty, R C Banerjee, Bijoy Krishna Bose in the Sessions Court as well as in the High Court makes an interesting read.