Confession in custody not admissible as evidence, will raise issue: Siya Goyal's advocate in Ketan Agarwal case
Pune, June 28 -- In the Ketan Agarwal murder case, the counsel for accused Siya Goyal on Sunday said that any confession made while in custody cannot be treated as admissible evidence and asserted that the defence will raise the issue during proceedings, while questioning what prompted the investigating agency to change its stand from treating the case as an accidental death to pursuing it as a murder investigation.
Advocate Aashutosh Srivastava, appearing for Siya Goyal, referred to provisions under the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA) while addressing the issue of the alleged confession.
"I have said before that what was previously Section 25 of our Indian Evidence Act is now Section 23 in our new law, the BSA (Bharatiya Sakshya Adhi...
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