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Confession under Indian Evidence Act

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  Confession under Indian Evidence Act

This article is written by Simran Sanjeev Gupta of Shri Vaishnav Institute of Law, Indore

INTRODUCTION:

The term confession is not defined under evidence act.In general words,it is a accepting  by the accuser that he has committed that wrongful act.
MEANING:
Confession is accepting a wrongdoing or crime.It is a voluntary statement, only made by a person charged with crime.It is self harming statement & applied only to criminal cases.
Example:-
I  killed a man with a gun.
I took a hockey & blow a victim.

ESSENTIALS: –

1.only made by accused or person charged with crime.
2.it is a voluntary statement.
3.it must affect the confessor.
4.made before judicial magistrate or person authorized.
5.it must contain words admit guilt.
6.it must be definite & certain.
7.it must either oral or document.

KINDS OF CONFESSION:

1:Judicial confession:
-Made before magistrate or court in course of legal proceeding.
-Confessor must have full & perfect knowledge of its nature & consequences.
-made in accordance with statues.
2:Non judicial confession
-Made before ther than court or judicial magistrate.
-informal statement
-Not appear in record of case.
EVIDENTIARY VALUE:
A person is convicted on the basis of confession.Thus,it play a vital role in establishing a guilt of crime.hence,it must be certain,definite & true.The court must take due cautions while admitting the confessions.
CONFESSION TO POLICE OFFICER:-
Confession made to police officer has not proved against the accused.
Reason-
1.police resort various means to take confession like torture.
2.if it accepted than it violates fundamental right of constitution art.20(3)

RETRACTED CONFESSION:

Means withdrawal of statement i.e taking back of previous statement relating to guilt. In this, accused confess before trial but denies or withdraw during trial. Hence, magistrate follow rules as a precautionary measures so that this situation won’t occur.And the confessor feel free from influence of police.

CONCLUSION:-

We can conclude that confession have significant importance in criminal cases.As the judicial confession follows prescribed rules & statues so it hardly leave any loopholes which deviate the proceeding of case. And further,confession  is a voluntary statement by the accuser thus it protects the accuser from torture & other threat for extracting the statement.

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