Section 24A
Admission of statements in evidence
of Prevention of Corruption Act
(1)
Where any person is charged with an offence, any statement —
(a)
whether such statement amounts to a confession or not or is oral or in writing, made any time, whether before or after that person is charged;
(b)
whether in the course of a police investigation or not, or whether in the course of an investigation by the Bureau or not;
(c)
whether or not a caution was administered; and
(d)
whether or not wholly or partly in answer to questions, by that person to, or in the hearing of, any police officer or any Officer of the Bureau, whether or not interpreted to him by any other police officer or any other Officer of the Bureau or any other person, whether concerned or not in the arrest of that person, shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Criminal
Procedure Code (Chapter 7) or in any other written law, be admissible at his trial in evidence and, if that person tenders himself as a witness, any such statement may be used in cross-examination and for the purpose of impeaching his credit.
(2)
Notwithstanding subsection (1), the court shall refuse to admit the confession of an accused person or allow it to be used in the manner referred to in that subsection if the making of the statement appears to the court to have been caused by any inducement, threat or promise having reference to the charge against that person, proceeding from a person in authority and sufficient in the opinion of the court to give that person grounds which would appear to him reasonable for supposing that by making
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it he would gain any advantage or avoid any evil of a temporal nature in reference to the proceedings against him.
(3)
No statement made by an accused person under a legal obligation to give information shall be construed as a statement obtained by any inducement, threat or promise as is referred to in subsection (2), if it is otherwise voluntary.
(4)
The court shall admit under subsection (1) a statement made by an accused person if such statement is made after the impression caused by any inducement, threat or promise as is referred to in subsection (2) has, in the opinion of the court, been fully removed.