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Information as to past history of article or its user. It is fallacious to treat the "fact discovered" within the section equivalent to the object produced; the fact discovered embraces the place from which the object is produced and the knowledge of the accused as to this and the information given must relate distinctly to this fact. Information as to past user, or the past history of the object produced is not related to its discovery in the setting in which it is discovered. The condition necessary to bring S, 27 into operation is that discovery of a fact in consequence of information received from an accused in police custody must be deposed to, and there upon so much of the information as relates distinctly to the fact there by discovered may be proved. The words "as relates distinctly to the fact" are very significant and must not be lost sight of Section 27 is based on the view that if a fact is actually discovered in consequence of information given, some guarantee is afforded thereby that the information was true, and accordingly can be safely allowed to be given in evidence. The extent of the information admissible must however depend on the exact nature of the fact discovered to which such in formation is required to relate distinctly. Generally Section 27 is brought into operation when a person in police custody produces from place of concealment some object such as a dead body, a weapon, or ornaments, said to be connected with the crime of which the informant in accused.