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Introducing wholesale confession under the guise of Section 27. The practice of in- troducing wholesale confession to the police under the guise of a recovery under Section 27 is to be deprecated. The Court expressed its disapproval of the police recording a confession by accused running to four or five pages incorporating, most incriminating statements against a co-accused and getting it attested by witnesses and then making it invisible by a legal fiction of 'bracketing' as it was bound to seriously prejudice both the accused. The Legislature had a purpose in excluding from evidence a confession made to a police officer by an accused person and also a confession made while in the custody of the police except in the immediate presence of the Magistrate. Under Section 27 only that portion of the information which led to the recovery is made admissible.