The Madras District Police Act, 1859
Section 42. No threat or promise, to compel disclosure by party arrested.
No Police Officer shall offer to the person arrested any in ducement, by threat or promise or otherwise, to make any disclosure. But no Police Officer shall prevent the person arrested, by any caution or otherwise, from making any disclosure which he may be disposed to make of his own free will.
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