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Statements made by more than one accused leading to discovery. - Where a rele- vant fact is discovered in consequence of statements made by one or more accused in custody, so much of those statements as relates distinctly to the discovery of that fact is admissible under Section 27. Information received from more than one person accused of an offence, whether it amounts to confession or not, may relate distinctly to the fact there-by discovered and may be proved under Section 27. What should be insisted upon by Courts is that the statement should be recorded as precisely as possible attributing the respective words to each accused, whether they made the statements simultaneously or immediately one after the other before the discovery of the fact was made. There is no sufficient reason to hold that a fact cannot be said to be discovered in consequence of information of more than one person accused of an offence. No principle in support can be found for the view that the statements of two or more accused leading to the discovery of a relevant fact will be admissible only if they are simultaneously made.