Explain whether two finger test on rape victims banned? CIC

The CIC Prof M Sridhar Acharyulu summoned PIO Directorate of Health Services to come with relevant files to explain whether pv test on rape victims was prohibited or not. In response an RTI appeal by Yogesh Kumar the CIC directed on 28th Jan 2015 to explain a) whether they have taken any decision or not in regard to banning of two finger test on victims of sexual assault, b) if not what are the reasons for not taking any decision, c) what actions are available if their guidelines are not followed, and d) when guidelines are specifically dissuading doctors from conducting this notorious test, why the medical text books are not revised accordingly, etc. Planning Commission's Working Group headed by Secretary, Women and Child Development Ministry, in its report in January, 2012 recommended abolition of this test in order to protect victims of sexual abuse from further mental trauma. The expert's team has developed a very useful set of Guidelines & Protocols, Medico-legal care for survivors/victims of sexual violence in 2014 which advises the doctors to be sensitive to the survivor besides prescribing specific "NO" to PV test, saying: Per-Vaginum examination commonly referred to by lay persons as 'two-finger test', must not be conducted for establishing rape/sexual violence and the size of the vaginal introitus has no bearing on a case of sexual violence.