Copyright
© 2026 Dr Harvinder Singh Chhabra. All text, illustrations, case scenarios and interactive material in the Forensic Medicine Workbench are the author's original work, except where a source is named below.
The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
Licence
Both resources are under the same licence.
Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Teach with it, share it, print it for your students. Credit the author, keep it non-commercial, and pass it on unchanged.
You may
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For translation, adaptation, commercial use, or anything else outside these terms, write to dr.fmt.hsc@gmail.com — permission is usually straightforward to arrange.
How to cite
Pick what you are citing, then copy the format your journal or examiner asks for. The access date updates to today.
Material from other sources
The Workbench draws on public documents and law. Those remain the property of their originators and are used here for teaching, with attribution.
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Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India
Guidelines & Protocols: Medico-legal care for survivors/victims of sexual violence (2014). Opinion wording and examination protocol follow this document. © Government of India.
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Parliament of India
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, in force 1 July 2024. Statutory text is reproduced or paraphrased for teaching; the bare Act governs.
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Typefaces
Newsreader and IBM Plex, both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, served via Google Fonts.
Disclaimer
These are teaching aids. They do not replace the statutory proforma, your hospital's protocol, or the current text of the law. Where a resource and the official proforma differ, the proforma governs.
Clinical and legal responsibility for any examination rests with the examining doctor. Verify section numbers and procedural requirements against the current statute before relying on them in a report or in court.
The material is provided as it is, without warranty. Neither the author nor the institution accepts liability for any loss arising from its use.
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