Under Section 24 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (corresponding to the former Section 30 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872), a confession made by one of several persons jointly tried for the same offence -

Section 24 of the BSA corresponds to the former Section 30 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, and provides that when more persons than one are being tried jointly for the same offence, and a confession made by one of them affecting himself and some other of such persons is proved, the court may take the confession into consideration against such other person as well as against the person who makes the confession. The conditions are: a joint trial for the same offence, and the confession must affect the maker himself.