24. Confession caused by inducement, threat or promise when irrelevant in criminal proceedings

Confession caused by inducement, threat or promise, when irrelevant in criminal proceeding.-A confession made by an accused  person is irrelevant in a criminal proceeding, if the making of the confession appears to the Court to have been caused by any inducement, threat or promise 1* having reference to the charge against theaccused person, proceeding from a person in authority and sufficient, in the opinion of the Court, to give the accused person grounds, which would appear to him reasonable, for supposing that by making it he would gain any advantage or avoid any evil of a temporal nature in reference to the proceedings against him.
1For prohibition of such inducements, etc., see the Code of Criminal Procedure 1898 (Act 5 of 1898), s. 343.