IEA 29BSA Second proviso to section 22

What changed

• Confession otherwise relevant not to become irrelevant because of promise of secrecy, etc.
• Heading is dropped as section is included as proviso.

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Under Section Second proviso to section 22 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (formerly Section 29 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872)...

Bare act text — BSA Second proviso to section 22

Provided further that if such a c onfession is otherwise relevant, it does not become irrelevant merely because it was made under a promise of secrecy, or in consequence of a deception practised on the accused person for the purpose of obtaining it, or when he was drunk, or because it was made in answer to questions which he need not have answered, whatever may have been the form of those questions, or because he was not warned that he was not bound to make such confession, and that evidence of it might be given against him.