The provision for examination of arrested person by medical officer is provided under which section of…

Section 53 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (formerly section 54 CrPC) governs examination of an arrested person by a medical officer soon after arrest, with a registered medical practitioner acting if a government medical officer is unavailable. It requires recording injuries and furnishing the examination report, and expressly permits one more examination if the medical practitioner considers it necessary. Section 51 instead concerns examination of an accused at a police officer’s request to obtain offence-related evidence. Section 55 (deputing a subordinate to arrest without warrant) and section 66 (service of summons when the person summoned cannot be found) do not provide the post-arrest examination rule.