CIVIL LIBERTIES ; 23 (a) This procedure, ordinarily, should not be undertaken unless either the Investigating Officer (10) or the concerned authority or supervisory officer is of the view that the first post-mortem was wrongly done or done with a view to helping the accused to escape punishment. (b) The second post-mortem may also be ordered by the Sub-Divisional Magistrate/Additional District Magistrate of the area concerned, after looking into all the facts. (c) The second post-mortem should be conducted by a 'Board' of two Forensic Medicine Specialists at a teaching institution where post mortems are being conducted. (d) The post-mortem report of the first doctor should be made available to the Board before conducting the second post-mortem. (e) The doctor who conducts the first post-mortem should be informed about the same andbe allowed to be present at the second post-mortem. There is a need to strengthen the existing Forensic Science Laboratories by providing them with the requisite trained manpower for the examination of viscera, and by ensuring the availability of modern infra-structural facilities and equipment. With regard to the ordering of sets of the Minimum Autopsy Kit proposed for use by Dr Joep Toebosch, the Committee observed that since the minimiun infrastructural facilities and instruments were available at the places where post mortem examinations were conducted, there was no need to order sets of the Minimum Autopsy Kit. E] Systemic Reforms: Police 1) Submission before the Supreme Court on Police Reforms 3.41 The Commission has been convinced, for a number of years, that the ANNUAL REPORT 2000-2001 h

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