PLD 2017 SC 730
Vol. II, Ch. XXV, R. 25.19(1)---Medico-legal opinion---Description of injuries by the Medico-legal Officer in the examination report---Scope---Practice of describing the sections of penal law under which the injuries fell by the Medico-legal Officer---Supreme Court deprecated such practice by Medico-Legal officers and observed that they should not assume the status of the prosecution/prosecutor s, as such was neither their domain nor they had lawful authority to direct or convey to the Investigating Agency the nature of offence; that the Medico-legal Officers should (only) describe the nature of injuries under the dispensation of law and not the provision of law, under which it fell.
