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Under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS), it is lawful to use reasonable force…

Under sections 51 and 52 of the BNSS (formerly sections 53 and 53A CrPC), a registered medical practitioner and persons acting in good faith in his aid and under his…

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Under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS), it is lawful to use reasonable force necessary to compel a person arrested on charge of committing an offence to facilitate a lab technician of a private clinic of a registered medical practitioner to gather sample of his sweat when there are reasonable grounds for believing that the examination of the same will afford evidence as to commission of an offence.

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Under sections 51 and 52 of the BNSS (formerly sections 53 and 53A CrPC), a registered medical practitioner and persons acting in good faith in his aid and under his direction, such as a lab technician, may examine an arrested person, including collecting sweat, at the request of a police officer not below the rank of sub-inspector, using such force as is reasonably necessary; for rape or attempt to rape, this may be done by a practitioner other than one employed in a Government or local-authority hospital only where no such practitioner is available within sixteen kilometres of the place where the offence was committed.

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