FIRST LAW

1. Taher Hoque Laskar v. Union of India Service Law -  CRPF  - T ransfer & Posting -  In matters relating to transfer and posting, it is the administrative and the executive authorities who are to decide as to how and when the employees concerned are to be transferred and posted - there are standing instructions to regulate the transfer and posting of the CRPF personnel and officers - controversy would be best settled at the level of the organization itself unless there are certain compelling circumstances to take up and adjudicate the matter. 2. Diganta Sarma v. Chaitali Siddhanta Women (Reservation of Vacancies in Service and Posts) Act, 2005 ( Assam) - A ppeal stands disposed of by directing the respondent authorities No.2 to 4 to allow the appellant to continue in his service as an Assistant Deputy Controller of Civil Defence (Junior) by adjusting his service against the available vacant post of Assistant Deputy Controller of Civil Defence (Junior) and ...

Evidence Act, 1872 - S. 26 -  Confession by accused while in custody of police not to be proved against him -  Whether the expression Magistrate appearing in Section 26 of the Evidence Act would mean Judicial Magistrate or an Executive Magistrate? Held,  the expression “Magistrate” appearing in Section 26 of the Evidence Act would mean only a Judicial Magistrate and not an Executive Magistrate.