law: Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
  
  53.Examination of accused by medical practitioner at the request of police
  
  officer.-
  (1) 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 as 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 an examination of the person arrested as is reasonably necessary in order
  
  to ascertain the facts which may afford such evidence, and to use such force as
  
  is reasonably necessary for that purpose.
  (2) Whenever the person 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 (h) of section 2 of the
  
  Indian Medical Council Act, 1956,(102 of 1956) and whose name has been entered
  
  in a State Medical Register.