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Statement not leading to discovery not admissible. After arrest the accused pointed out the place where the articles recovered from him where stolen; held, that this amounted to a confession and without leading to any new discovery was inadmissible under Section 27. Incriminating statements made to a police officer are hit by Sections 25 and 26 of the Evi- dence Act. The statement that the axe is one with which the murder had been committed is not a statement which leads to any discovery within the meaning of Section 27 of the Evidence Act. Nor is the alleged statement that the blood-stained shirt and dhoti belonged to him a statement which leads to any discovery. It is fallacious to treat the 'fact discovered' within Section 27 as 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. It is wrong to admit in evidence the statement of the accused that the axe had been used to commit murder or the statement that the blood-stained shirt and dhoti were his.