The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a ban on “two-finger test” in rape cases and warned that persons conducting such tests will be held guilty of misconduct.
The two-finger test is an unscientific and intrusive physical examination that involves insertion of two fingers into a woman’s vagina to measure the laxity of muscles and determine her ‘virginity’. It is based on the patriarchal assumption that a woman who is sexually active is less likely to have been sexually assaulted; several judgments and research have shown that a person’s sexual history has no bearing on sexual assault.
The Supreme Court had deemed the practice unconstitutional in 2013 and held that the test should not be performed.
A look at the observations of the bench comprising Justices DY Chandrachud and Hima Kohli on the test:
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