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Criminal Law
Bare Acts
The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
Section 51-100
Section 51
Section 52
Section 53
Section 54
Section 55
Section 56
Section 57
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Section 95
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Section 99
Section 100
Section 53- Examination of accused by medical practitioner at the request of police officer

When a person is arrested on a charge of committing an offence of such a nature and alleged to have been committed under such circumstances that there are reasonable grounds for believing that an examination of his person will afford evidence its to the commission of an offence, it shall be lawful for a registered medical practitioner, acting, at the request of a police officer not below the rank of sub-inspector, and for- any person acting in good faith in his aid and -under his direction, to make such all examination of the person arrested as is reasonable necessary in order to ascertain the facts which may afford such evidence, and to use such force as is reasonably necessary for that purpose.
Whenever the pet-son of a female is to be examined under this section, the examination shall be made only by, or under the supervision of, a female registered medical practitioner.

Explanation. In this section and in section 54, "registered medical practitioner means a medical practitioner who possesses any recognized medical qualification as defined in clause (l) of section 2 of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956), and whose name has been entered in a State Medical Register.