Multiple choice

Which of the following distinctions of a confession from an admission is not correct?

  1. Where conviction can be based on statement alone, it is a confession and where some supplementary evidence is needed to authorise a conviction, it is an admission.

  2. Confession is defined whereas admission is not defined in the Indian Evidence Act.

  3. If the prosecution relies on a statement as being true, it is confession and if the statement is relied on because it is false, it is admission.

  4. In criminal cases, a statement by accused, not amounting to confession, but giving rise to inference that the accused might have committed the crime, is his admission.

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Admission is defined in the Indian Evidence Act, whereas confession is not defined.