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Admissibility of disclosure statement Investigating Officer not examined. The dis- closure statement made by accused upon interrogation by an investigation police officer in the presence of a disinterested witness is admissible in evidence against the accused, even if the interrogating officer, for some reason or the other cannot be examined, when the person in whose presence the statement was made is examined. Section 27 which is an exception to Sections 25 and 26 nowhere lays down that to prove a disclosure statement it is obligatory to examine the investigating officer who interrogated the accused. The requirement of this section is that the person when he makes the disclosure statement should be accused of an offence and should be in the custody of a police officer. Even then only so much of the information, whether it amounts to a confession or not as relates distinctly to the fact thereby discovered, can be proved.