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Section 24 - Indian Evidence Act, 1872
Indian Evidence Act, 1872
24. Confession caused by inducement, threat or promise when irrelevant in criminal proceedings
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 for 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.
Related Sections
- Section 26: Confession by accused while in custody of police not to be proved against him
- Section 87: Presumption as to books, maps and charts
- Section 125: Information as to commission of offences
- Section 157: Former statements of witness may be proved to corroborate later testimony as to same fact
- Section 48: Opinion as to existence of right or custom, when relevant
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