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Kattu Raja vs The State By on 30 April, 2013
29. It will be relevant to rely upon the judgment of this Court in Kattu
Raja vs. State, reported in 2013-1-L.W.(Crl.) 633. The relevant portions of the
judgment is extracted hereunder:
Section 164 in The Indian Evidence Act, 1872 [Entire Act]
Pulukuri Kottaya vs King-Emperor on 19 December, 1946
Section 27 of the Evidence Act states 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.
Here, it needs to be noticed that it is not every fact that is
discovered out of such statement which makes such statement as
admissible. It is only the discovery of a relevant fact which makes
the statement admissible in evidence. As has been held by the Privy
Council in Pulukuri Kottaya vs Stae of Emperor's case [cited supra],
the relevancy between the crime and the fact discovered should be
proved through other evidence and not by the confession itself.....”