Question

    Essential Requirement for application of section 27 of Evidence Act are:

    A Person giving information must be an accused of any offence Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B The person must be in police custody Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C The person may or may not be in police custody Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Both a & b Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    As per Indian Evidence Act, S.27. How much of information received from accused may be proved .—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.

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