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Section 163 - Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
163. No inducement to be offered.-
(1) No police officer or other person in authority shall offer or make, or cause to be offered or made, any such inducement, threat or promise as is mentioned in section 24 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872).
(2) But no police officer or other person shall prevent, by any caution or otherwise, any person from making in the course of any investigation under this Chapter any statement which he may be disposed to make of his own free will: Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall affect the provisions of sub-section (4) of section 164.
Related Sections
- Section 129: Dispersal of assembly by use of civil force
- Section 340: Procedure in cases mentioned in section 195
- Section 132: Protection against prosecution for acts done under preceding sections
- Section 466: Defect or error not to make attachment unlawful
- Section 131: Power of certain armed force officers to disperse assembly
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