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Journal of Forensic Chemistry and Toxicology

Volume  2, Issue 1,  January - June 2016, Pages 37-44
 

Review Article

Doctor’s Witness and Court Procedures in India

Asit Kumar Sikary*, Millo Tabin**, D.N. Bhardwaj**

*Senior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, 2nd Floor, New Forensic Building, **Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

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DOI: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/jfct.2454.9363.2116.7

Abstract

  Law always need the help of medical expert in one way or other for justice as it has no such expertise. Sometimes, the doctor is the only material witness available. So, the court calls a doctor for help whenever it feels necessary. To attend a court is not less than a great ordeal for a doctor, as he is not well verse with the functioning of the court. This article is to introduce doctors to the court procedure so that he does not feel estrange whenever he had to face it.

Keyword: Summons; Medical Expert; Legal System; Court; Evidence; Witness; Conduct Money; Hostile Witness.


Corresponding Author : Millo Tabin**