law: Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
  
  54.Examination of arrested person by medical practitioner at the request of
  
  the arrested person.-
  When a person who is arrested, whether on a
  
  charge or otherwise, alleges, at the time when he is produced before a
  
  Magistrate or at any time during the period of his detention in custody that
  
  the examination of his body will afford evidence which will disprove the
  
  commission by him of any offence or which will establish the commission by any
  
  other person of any offence against his body, the Magistrate shall, if
  
  requested by the arrested person so to do direct the examination of the body of
  
  such person by a registered medical practitioner unless the Magistrate
  
  considers that the request is made for the purpose of vexation or delay or for
  
  defeating the ends of justice.