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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.....”
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