Indian Evidence Act, 1872
24. Confession caused by inducement, threat or promise
when irrelevant in criminal proceedings
A confession made by
an accused person is irrelevant in a criminal proceeding, if the making of the
confession appears to the Court to have been caused by any inducement, threat
for promise, having reference to the charge against the accused person,
proceeding from a person in authority and sufficient, in the opinion of the
Court, to give the accused person grounds, which would appear to him
reasonable, for supposing that by making it he would gain any advantage or
avoid any evil of a temporal nature in reference to the proceedings against
him.