The Supreme Court on Monday mentioned it’s unlucky that the apply of “two-finger test” to check rape victims continues to be prevalent within the society, and requested the Center and states to make sure that it doesn’t occur.
A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Hima Kohli overturned the Jharkhand High Court’s acquittal of a rape and homicide convict and upheld the trial court docket’s conviction.
The bench mentioned the decade-old judgment of the apex court docket termed the aggressive “two-finger test” as a violation of the dignity and privateness of a lady.
“It is unfortunate that this practice is prevalent even today… The procedure to test for vaginal laxity is against the dignity of women. It cannot be said that a sexually active woman cannot be raped,” the bench he mentioned.
It issued a number of directions to central and state authorities officers and requested state DGPs and well being secretaries to make sure that there is no such thing as a “two-finger test”.
The high court docket mentioned that any one who conducts the two-finger take a look at shall be held responsible of misconduct.
It directed the well being secretaries of the Center and the state to take steps to take away the research materials on two-finger take a look at from the syllabus of presidency and personal medical schools.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
