Evidence Act Section 28 is now BSA Section 22
- Evidence Act 28 (Confession made after removal of impression caused by inducement, threat or promise, relevant) → BSA 22 Confession caused by inducement, threat, coercion or promise, when irrelevant in criminal proceedingNow the first proviso to BSA 22.
Verbatim · BSA 2222. Confession caused by inducement, threat, coercion or promise, when irrelevant in criminal proceeding.— 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, coercion or 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…
Read the full BSA Section 22 →
The BSA replaced the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 from 1 July 2024.
Old-to-new correspondence is indicative and not always one-to-one; read the new text itself.