It is not difficult for the police to extract a confession from a person in their custody. Few people can withstand sustained pressure, threats or third-degree methods, particularly when they are completely at the mercy of the police. That is why the law has always treated confessions made to the police with deep suspicion. A confession in police custody cannot become a substitute for evidence.

The Supreme Court has now reaffirmed this basic principle while quashing the preventive detention of Mulla Afroz in connection with the November 2024 Sambhal violence and ordering the Uttar Pradesh government to pay him Rs 10 lakh. The Bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu held that the National Security Act had been invoked........

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