No inducement to be offered
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Summary
Police or other authorities must not offer inducements, threats, or promises to obtain or influence a confession or statement, because that can make the statement unreliable. They may, however, give a caution or warning and must not prevent anyone from freely making a statement during an investigation. This does not affect the separate rule on court-recorded statements under section 164(4).
Example
Ravi is suspected of shop theft. An officer promises him a lighter sentence if he confesses. That inducement is forbidden, so any confession made because of that promise can be treated as unreliable. The officer can still caution Ravi and may not stop him from making a voluntary statement during the investigation.
Bare Act
Enacted text(1) No police officer or other person in authority shall offer or make, or cause to be offered or made, any such inducement, threat or promise as is mentioned in section 24 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872).
(2) But no police officer or other person shall prevent, by any caution or otherwise, any person from making in the course of any investigation under this Chapter any statement which he may be disposed to make of his own free will:
Provided that nothing in this Sub-Section shall affect the provisions of Sub-Section (4) of section 164.
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