Section 28: Confession made after removal of impression caused by inducement, threat or promise, relevant

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As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table

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1. 1. A police officer threatens X, an accused, that his family will be harmed unless he confesses. X does not confess then. Weeks later, after X has been remanded to judicial custody and the Court finds that the impression caused by the threat had been fully removed by then, X voluntarily confesses before a Magistrate. The confession is:

   A.irrelevant, because a confession once preceded by a threat from a person in authority can never become relevantB.relevant, because it was made after the impression caused by the threat had been fully removedC.irrelevant, because Section 23(1) bars every confession made after a threat by a police officerD.relevant only if the police officer who made the threat testifies that he withdrew it
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