INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872
BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023
25. Confession to police-officer not to be proved.
23. Confession to police officer.
changed or removed in old law
changed or added in new law
Similar wording stays plain; only differences are highlighted.
BSA Section 23 restructures the police-confession provisions.
INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872
25. Confession to police-officer not to be proved.––No confession made to a police-officer3, shall
be proved as against a person accused of any offence.
Repealed / replaced by BSA India Code — IEA 1872
BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023
23. 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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Current law India Code — BSA 2023