Evidence Act, 1872, Section 30 -- Confessional statement - Admissibility against a person other than the person who made it - When more persons than one are being tried jointly for the same offence, and a confession made by one of such persons affecting himself and some other of such persons is proved, Court may take into consideration such confession as against such other..........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 60, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 -- Admissions and confessions are exceptions to the "hearsay" rule - Evidence Act places them in the province of relevance, presumably on the ground, that they being declarations against the interest of the person making them, they are in all probability true - The probative value of an admission or a..........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 24 -- Admission and confession - Only such admissions/confessions are admissible as can be stated to have been made without any coercion, threat or promise...........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 25, 26 -- Confession in an offence under MCOCA - Confession is admissible, even if it is made to a police officer (not below the rank of Deputy Commissioner of Police) - Therefore, even though Ss.25 & 26 of the Act render inadmissible confessional statements made to police officer or while in police custody, S.17 of MCOCA overrides the said..........
Criminal Trial -- Intention & knowledge - Proof - Held, intention and knowledge being a man's state of mind cannot be proved by direct evidence thereof except through his own confession...........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 3, 26 -- Extra judicial confession of co-accused - Evidentiary value - Held, confession of co-accused is not evidence as defined in S.3 of the Act and no conviction can be founded thereon - But if there was other evidence on which a conviction can be based, that can be referred to as lending assurance to that conclusion and for fortifying it...........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 24 -- Extra-judicial confession - Evidentiary value - Held, it is very weak type of evidence - Conviction cannot sustain on basis of such extra-judicial confession alone...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 313 -- Statement of accused u/s 313 Cr.P.C. - Confession of guilt - Accused cannot be convicted solely on the confession of guilt made in the examination u/s 313 Cr.P.C. in the absence of any other evidence on record to establish the charge against him...........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 25 -- Confessional statement made before police official - Not admissible in evidence - Without corroborative evidence confession made by accused cannot form the basis of conviction...........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 24 -- Extra judicial confession - A very weak piece of evidence which requires corroboration of other evidence to complete the chain of events pointing to the conclusion of guilt of the accused...........
