List steps taken to halt 2-finger test: HC to state

The Bombay high court has asked the state government to spell out the steps it has taken to sensitise health workers regarding the insensitive, inhuman and discriminatory nature of the "two-finger test" or per vaginum examination performed on rape and sexual assault survivors.

- Prateem Rohanekar

MUMBAI:

A division bench of justices Nitin Sambre and Vrushali Joshi has asked the state government to place on record a report of compliance with mandatory directions issued by the Supreme Court in the State of Jharkhand vs Shailendra Kumar Rai case. The bench was hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Smita Singalkar, which questioned the morality and practicability of the "two-finger test".