Is Formal Accusation/Police Custody Required To Invoke Section 27 Evidence Act? Supreme Court Corrects Itself !
Section 27 of the Indian Evidence Act 1872, which explains how much of information received from accused may be proved, reads as follows: “Provided that, when any fact is deposed to as discovered inconsequence of information received from a person accused of any offence, in the custody of a police-officer, so much of such information, …