CrPC 163 — No inducement to be offered

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Statutory text

(1) No police  officer or other person in authority  shall offer or  make, or
cause  to  be  offered  or  made,  any  such  inducement,  threat  or  promise  as  is  mentioned  in  section  24  of  the  Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872).
(2) But no police officer or other person shall prevent, by any caution or otherwise, any person from making in
the course of any investigation under this Chapter any statement which he may be disposed to make of his own free
will:

Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall affect the provisions of sub-section (4) of section 164.

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