virtue of his position, could extract by force,
torture or inducement a confession. An Excise Officer
acting under s. 78 (3) of the Bihar ... confession made to a member of the
regular police force but not a confession made
to an abkari or excise officer, if such
officer
words, the prohibition operated only when an accused is sought to be forced to depose against his innocence.
9. To sum up, in the language ... convicted by other evidence and not by his own forced confession upon oath.
Such, too, is the inference from the policy of the privilege
puts to the accused does not necessarily entail the rejection of the confession as inadmissible. For, Section 533 of the Code provides for evidence being ... confession deserves the highest credit, because it is presumed to flow from the strongest sense of guilt. It is, therefore, that a confession forced from
which require the Railway Protection Force Officers making arrests to hand over the persons arrested to the Police Officers or in the absence ... Indian Evidence Act, 1872, which runs as follows:
25. No confession made to a police officer, shall be proved as against a person accused
puts to the accused does not necessarily entail the rejection of the confession as inadmissible. For, Section 533 of the Code provides for evidence being ... confession deserves the highest credit, because it is presumed to flow from the strongest sense of guilt. It is, therefore, that a confession forced from
Police Station
and the petitioner and the police are
forcefully trying to recover money from the
deceased. It is the case of the petitioner that ... alleged that the deceased was also
severally beaten in order to forcefully confess
and to forcefully give money at Bedipara Police
chowky, because of which
judicial confession is a stage mannered one, created at the instance of the
appellants herein, P.W.32 Village Administrative Officer was forced,
compelled ... could be saved.
The appellants, created and projected a extra judicial confession, forced
P.W.32 to write the complaint and registered the complaint
investigation, when
the police with a view to secure evidence or confession often resorts
to third degree methods including torture and adopts techniques of
screening ... 54765 of 2021(2) dt.26-11-2021
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force, confession of main accused, Rajan Singh @ Rajan Kumar
Singh, son of Ramanand Sing came
confession Ex.PW37/F is voluntary as there is no allegation of
being beaten or tortured or extraction of confession by force ... voluntariness of confession on
12.06.2009 and the accused being forced to make a confession, are such that the
confession cannot be accepted/believed relying
consideration is. whether an
Inspector of the Railway Protection Force, (for short, RPF)
is a "police officer", and therefore any confessional
statement made ... high
purpose and that is to prevent the police from obtaining
confession by force, torture or inducement. The salutary
principle underlying the Section would apply
