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THE BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023

Statutory text, reformatted for reading. Consult the official source for authoritative text and later amendments.

Section 23 · Source pages 17–17

Confession to police officer

(1) No confession made to a police officer shall be proved as against a person accused of any offence.

(2) No confession made by any person while he is in the custody of a police officer, unless it is made in the immediate presence of a Magistrate shall be proved against him:

Provided that when any fact is deposed to as discovered in consequence of information received from a person accused of any offence, in the custody of a police officer, so much of such information, whether it amounts to a confession or not, as relates distinctly to the fact discovered, may be proved.

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