https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=288012 Section 25 of the Evidence Act applies only to a police officer in the true and accepted sense, not to every officer who is merely given limited powers of arrest, search or investigation. On that reasoning, an Excise Inspector is not treated as a police officer for Section 25, and a confession made to such an officer is not excluded on that ground alone. The text also notes that Section 24 separately governs confessions made to persons in authority where inducement, threat or promise is involved. The stated consequence is that the impugned confession remained admissible and the conviction was left undisturbed. en-us Fri, 02 Sep 1932 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 14 May 2020 10:30:53 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=288012 Section 25 of the Evidence Act applies only to a police officer in the true and accepted sense, not to every officer who is merely given limited powers of arrest, search or investigation. On that reasoning, an Excise Inspector is not treated as a police officer for Section 25, and a confession made to such an officer is not excluded on that ground alone. The text also notes that Section 24 separately governs confessions made to persons in authority where inducement, threat or promise is involved. The stated consequence is that the impugned confession remained admissible and the conviction was left undisturbed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 02 Sep 1932 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=288012