Consider the passage given below and answer the question. Confession under section 24 of the Indian Evidence Act, implies an assertion made by blamed individual which is proposed to prove against him to establish a crime. The Supreme Court of India has observed that the confession should either concede concerning the offense or anyway, the real factors that comprise the offense. The admission of gravely incriminating fact, even conclusively incriminating fact isn't a confession itself. The assertion that contains self-exculpatory or other matter can't amount to a confession, in the event that the exculpatory assertion is of similar facts which, if valid, would negative the offense claimed to be admitted. The assertion which when read all in all is of exculpatory character and in which the detainee denies his culpability isn't confession, and can't be utilized in evidence to prove this liability.

Assertion: Confession is merely one species of admission. Reasoning: The section relating to "Confession" comes under the heading of "Admission" under the Indian Evidence Act.

Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct and R is the correct explanation of A. Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct and but R is not the correct explanation of A. Assertion (A) is true but Reasoning (R) is not correct. Assertion (A) is not true but Reasoning (R) is correct.

Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.

Confession: The word "confession" appears for the first time in Section 24 of the Indian Evidence Act. This section comes under the heading of Admission so it is clear that the confessions are merely one species of admission. Confession is not defined in the Act. Justice Stephen in his Digest of the law of Evidence states, "confession is an admission made at any time by a person charged with a crime stating or suggesting the inference that he committed that crime.”