IEA 24 — Confession caused by inducement, threat or promise, when irrelevant in criminal proceeding

Indian Evidence Act, 1872

Statutory text

A  confession  made  by  an  accused  person  is  irrelevant  in  a  criminal  proceeding,  if  the
making of the confession appears to the Court to have been caused by any inducement, threat or

promise
having  reference  to  the  charge  against  the  accused person,  proceeding  from  a  person  in  authority  and
sufficient,  in  the  opinion  of  the  Court,  to  give  the  accused  person  grounds  which  would  appear  to  him
reasonable for supposing that by making it he would gain any advantage or avoid any evil of a temporal nature in reference to the proceedings against him.

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