Under Section 22 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (corresponding to the former Section 24 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872), a confession made by an accused person is irrelevant in a criminal proceeding if -

Section 22 of the BSA, 2023 corresponds to the former Section 24 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, and declares irrelevant a confession which appears to the court to have been caused by any inducement, threat, coercion or promise, having reference to the charge against the accused person, proceeding from a person in authority, and sufficient to give the accused reasonable grounds for supposing that by making it he would gain an advantage or avoid an evil of a temporal nature in reference to the proceedings. The inducement must proceed from a person in authority, must relate to the charge, and must be such as would reasonably operate on the mind of the accused.