{"id":16808,"date":"2024-08-12T08:37:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T03:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16808"},"modified":"2025-04-04T23:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T17:51:37","slug":"section-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/section-27\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Section 27 of the Indian Evidence Act?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Section 27 of the Indian Evidence Act:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This section creates an <strong>exception to<\/strong> the <strong>admissibility of confession<\/strong> made <strong>by the accused <\/strong>to a police officer <strong>while in custody.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sections 25 and 26<\/strong> establish <strong>protection against self-incrimination<\/strong> and abuse of power by the police authority, <strong>deeming confessions made in police custody without<\/strong> the <strong>presence of a magistrate <\/strong>as <strong>inadmissiblebe forea court<\/strong> of law.<\/li>\n<li>However, <strong>Section 27<\/strong> provides an <strong>exception to this rule<\/strong>, <strong>allowing<\/strong> the <strong>admission of confessions that lead to <\/strong>the <strong>discovery of facts.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Section 27 states: &#8220;Provided 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.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>In simpler terms, any <strong>confession made<\/strong> by a person while <strong>in police custody that leads to<\/strong> the <strong>revelation of a fact<\/strong> is considered <strong>admissible in court.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The confession <strong>must provide information <\/strong>that was <strong>not previously known<\/strong> to the police <strong>and that led to the recovery of evidence<\/strong> or the identification of witnesses.<\/li>\n<li>The confession <strong>must be directly related to the fact discovered<\/strong>. This means that the information provided in the confession must be specific and relevant to the discovery.<\/li>\n<li>The confession <strong>must be made voluntarily<\/strong>. This means that the person must not have been coerced or threatened into making the confession.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>basic idea <\/strong>embedded in Section 27 of the Evidence Act <strong>is the doctrine of confirmation by subsequent events.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>This doctrine is founded on the <strong>principle that every part ofthestatement <\/strong>made at the instance of the<strong> accused, ina<\/strong> po<strong>lice custody should <\/strong>necessarily<strong> be confirmed by the subsequent events of discovery<\/strong>, <strong>to make it<\/strong> admissible in court.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In the case of Asar Mohd. v. State of U.P, the Supreme Court held that the concept of &#8220;<strong>fact<\/strong>&#8221; mentioned <strong>in Section 27 is not limited to physical objects<\/strong> alone but <strong>also includes<\/strong> essential <strong>psychological or mental facts<\/strong> that may be directly relevant to the case.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The confession <strong>cannot be used to prove the guilt<\/strong> of the accused <strong>unless it is corroborated by other evidence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is meant by self-incrimination?<\/h3>\n<p>Self-incrimination is when someone provides information that suggests their involvement in a crime or exposes them to criminal prosecution. Self-incrimination can occur in various situations, such as during police interrogations, court testimonies, or other legal proceedings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livelaw.in\/supreme-court\/s-27-evidence-act-statement-of-accused-inadmissible-if-no-new-fact-is-discovered-pursuant-to-disclosure-supreme-court-266344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>S. 27 Evidence Act | Statement Of Accused Inadmissible If No New Fact Is Discovered Pursuant To Disclosure: Supreme Court<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Section 27 of the Indian Evidence Act creates an exception to the admissibility of confession made by the accused to a police officer while in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}