Recording of confessions and statements, and the need for the certificate of genuineness and voluntariness, is prescribed under which section of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023?

Explanation: Section 183 of the BNSS, 2023 is the provision governing the recording of confessions and statements by a Magistrate, and it requires the Magistrate to record the confession in the prescribed manner and append a certificate that it was made voluntarily and without inducement, threat or promise, before it can be taken into consideration. Section 480 concerns bail in non-bailable cases, Section 187 remand and default bail, and Section 392 the time period for judgment. The section-number distinction matters because courts only consider voluntary confessions so recorded.