Title : Confession Caused by Inducement, Threat or Promise, when Irrelevant in Criminal Proceeding
State : Central
Year : 1872
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 promise1 , 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. _____________________ 1. For prohibition of such inducement, etc., see the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), section 316. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Confession to Police Officer Not to Be Proved
State : Central
Year : 1872
No confession made to a police officer1 , shall be proved as against a person accused of any offence. _____________________ 1. As to statements made to a police officer investigating a case, see the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), section 162. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : How Much of Information Received from Accused May Be Proved
State : Central
Year : 1872
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 thereby discovered, may be proved . View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Confession Made After Removal of Impression Caused by Inducement, Threat or Promise Relevant
State : Central
Year : 1872
If such a confession as is referred to in section 24 is made after the impression caused by any such inducement, threat or promise has, in the opinion of the Court, been fully removed, it is relevant. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Admissions Not Conclusive Proof, but May Estop
State : Central
Year : 1872
Admissions are not conclusive proof of the matters admitted but they may operate as estoppels under the provisions hereinafter contained. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Entries in Books of Account Including Those Maintained in an Electronic Form when Relevant
State : Central
Year : 1872
34. 1 [Entries in books of account including those maintained in an electronic form] when relevant 1 [Entries in books of accounts including those maintained in an electronic form], regularly kept in the course of business, are relevant whenever they refer to a matter into which the Court has to inquire, but such statements shall not alone be sufficient evidence to charge any person with liability. Illustration A sues B for Rs. 1,000, and shows entries in his account-books showing B to be indebted to him to this amount. The entries are relevant, but are not sufficient, without other evidence, to prove the debt. _____________________ 1. Substituted by Act 21 of 2000, section 92 and Schedule II, for "Entries in the books of account" (w.e.f. 17-10-2000). View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Relevancy of Statements in Maps, Charts and Plans
State : Central
Year : 1872
Statements of facts in issue or relevant facts, made in published maps or charts generally offered for public sale, or in maps or plans made under the authority of 1 [the Central Government or any State Government], as to matters usually represented or stated in such maps, charts or plans, are themselves relevant facts. _____________________ 1. Substituted by the A.O. 1948, for "any Government in British India." View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Relevancy of Statements as to Any Law Contained in Law-books
State : Central
Year : 1872
When the Court has to form an opinion as to a law of any country, any statement of such law contained in a book purporting to be printed or published under the authority of the Government of such country and to contain any such law, and any report of a ruling of the Courts of such country contained in a book purporting to be a report of such rulings, is relevant. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Previous Judgments Relevant to Bar a Second Suit or Trial
State : Central
Year : 1872
The existence of any judgment, order or decree which by law prevents any Courts from taking cognizance of a suit or holding a trial is a relevant fact when the question is whether such Court ought to take cognizance of such suit or to hold such trial. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Relevancy and Effect of Judgments, Orders or Decrees, Other Than Those Mentioned in Section 41
State : Central
Year : 1872
Judgments, orders or decrees other than those mentioned in section 41, are relevant if they relate to matters of a public nature relevant to the enquiry, but such judgments, orders or decrees are not conclusive proof of that which they state. Illustration A sues B for trespass on his land. B alleges the existence of a public right of way over the land, which A denies. The existence of a decree in favour of the defendant, in a suit by A against C for a trespass on the same land in which C alleged the existence of the same right of way, is relevant, but it is not conclusive proof that the right of way exists. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section