rayuan jenayah no. b-05-18-2009 antara faisal bin abd. aziz

(c) On the last issue of information under Section 27 of the
Evidence Act, that section reads as follows:-
“27. (1) When any fact is deposed to as
discovered in consequence of information received
from a person accused of any offence in the custody
of a police officer, so much of that information,
whether the information amounts to a confession or
not, as relates distinctly to the fact thereby discovered
may be proved.”.
It is trite law that Section 27 of the Act is to be read
independently from the provisions pertaining to
confession under Section 24 of the Act. Reference on
this matter can be seen in the cases of: Gooi Ching Ang
v PP [1999] 1 CLJ 829; Hanafi bin Mat Hassan v PP
[2006] 4 MLJ 134; and Francis Antonysamy v PP
[2005] 2 CLJ 481.
Furthermore in this instant appeal, the information
was given in the hearing of SP2, who as discussed
earlier, was an agent provocateur and thus protected
under Section 40A(2) of the Dangerous Drugs Act
1952, which under the law makes the information
admissible as evidence at the trial. There are no two
ways about that.
Furthermore, the rationale of the admissibility of
information under Section 27 is because the fact of
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