INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872
BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023
27. How much of information received from accused may be proved.
23. Confession to police officer.
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IEA Section 27 is carried as the proviso to BSA Section 23.
INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872
27. How much of information received from accused may be proved.––Provided that, when any
fact is deposed to as discovered inconsequence 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 thereby discovered, may be proved.
Repealed / replaced by BSA India Code — IEA 1872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