PLD 2023 Lahore 757
PLJ 2023 CrC 948
(a) Ensure that medical opinion in cases involving rape and sexual assaults is in tune with the current definition of rape under section 375 PPC.
(c) Ensure strict compliance with section 13(1) of the Anti Rape (Investigation and Trial) Act, 2021, and prohibit the use of the two-finger test during medical examinations of women and girls who have allegedly been victims of rape or sexual assault.
(d) Ensure that medical examiners refrain from commenting on the victim’s past sexual history unless it is relevant to their physical condition and that they do not make findings, such as whether the patient is “habituated to sexual intercourse”, based on a medical examination.
(e) Conduct workshops for healthcare professionals to communicate the procedure to be followed when examining survivors of sexual assault and rape.
(f) Initiate appropriate proceedings against any individual who conducts the two-finger test in contravention of law.
(g) The SOPs for medico-legal examinations of victims of sexual violence should be updated in conformity with WHO Guidelines and circulated and made readily available in all government healthcare facilities.
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