Confession to police officer .—(1) No confession made to a police officer shall be proved as
against a person accused of any offence.
(2) No confession made by any person while he is in the custody of a police officer, unless it is made
in the immediate presence of a Magistrate shall be proved against him:
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 discovered, may be proved.
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