Section 42
No threat or promise, to compel disclosure by party arrested.
The Madras District Police Act, 1859
About this Act
An Act for the better regulation of the Police within the Territories subject to the Presidency of Fort St. George.
No Police Officer shall
offer to the person arrested any in ducement, by threat or promise or otherwise, to make any disclosure.
But no Police Officer shall prevent the person arrested, by any caution or otherwise, from making any
disclosure which he may be disposed to make of his own free will.