(4) The exact time of commencement and completion of the
examination shall also be noted in the report.
(5)
The registered medical practitioner shall, without delay,
forward the report of the investigating officer, who shall forward
it to the Magistrate referred to in Section 173 as part of the
documents referred to in Clause (a) of subsection (5) of that
section.”
75. Even in a case where the victim of rape was alive and testified
before the Court and the accused was also examined by a doctor,
this Court found in Krishan Kumar Malik vs. State of Haryana8
that the failure to obtain the report of the Forensic Sciences
Laboratory was fatal. Paragraph 40 of the said decision reads as
follows:
“40. The appellant was also examined by the doctor,
who had found him capable of performing sexual
intercourse. In the undergarments of the prosecutrix,
male semen were found but these were not sent for
analysis in the forensic laboratories which could have
conclusively proved, beyond any shadow of doubt with
regard to the commission of offence by the appellant.
This lacuna on the part of the prosecution proves to be
fatal and goes in favour of the appellant.”
76. On the scope of the newly inserted Section 53A, this Court
said in Krishan Kumar Malik (supra) as follows:
“44. Now, after the incorporation of Section 53A
in the Criminal Procedure Code, w.e.f. 23.6.2006,
brought to our notice by the learned counsel for the
respondent State, it has become necessary for the
prosecution to go in for DNA test in such type of cases,
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