Hello everyone,
I am sure the aforementioned subject has been discussed in details. Please direct me to those posts and I apologise for starting another thread on the same subject. However, I am not just looking for a simple definition of Judicial and Extra Judicial Confessions.
My querry is, if any act has given power to a certain level of officers to receive and record statement / confessional statement AND have also made statements so made, admissible in the court. Can it be still call and extra-judicial statement?
I can give example of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 (ammended 2006/2013) wherein under Section 50(8), an officer of the rank of Assistant Director of the Wildlife Preservation (central govt) or an Assistant Conservator of Forests (state govt) can receive and record evidence and under Section 50(9) such evidences are admissible in court.
It has been amply made clear in many high court and supreme court matters that a forest officer is not an police officer hence certain provisions of the evidence act does not hit them.
All I need to know is that whether evidence taken in accordance with Sec 50(8) r/w Sec 50(9) can be termed extra judicial confessions.
Thanks in advance
Regards
Rahul Dutta