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- No sign of any external marks of injury on her body was found.
Locally p/h - no external signs of injury were present on ......... but hymen was torn and labia and area around hymen was congested and reddish. No bleeding..
Impression - No definite opinion could be made regarding sexual intercourse. Only congestion around the torn hymen suggests sexual misconduct or finding.
Definite opinion could only by given after the reports.
10. P.W.4 Dr. Vandana Sundriyal has stated that on 28.10.2012 she was posted as Senior Medical Officer at Doon Women Hospital. She had conducted medical examination of the prosecutrix and while conducting medical examination, she had found no external injury on the body of the prosecutrix. She has further stated that there were no external injury on the private part of the prosecutrix but hymen was torn and labia and area around hymen was congested and reddish. There was no bleeding. In cross-examination, this witness has admitted that there was no bleeding on the private part of the prosecutrix and it is difficult to state that in case of rape whether bleeding is possible. She has also admitted that reddishness may also occur due to any other injury and she had not given her opinion as to how old reddishness was. She has also stated that besides above, there was no injury or swelling present on the body of the prosecutrix.
(1) Examination of virgins - for alleged rape.

The person may be a woman or a girl who has had no previous experience of sexual intercourse. In these cases, when the first intercourse takes place, the hymen is torn, the tear occurring usually on the posterior aspect on one or both sides. It may also be torn in the mid-line posteriorly. If the hymen is of the annular type, the tears may be multiple. This is so, because such a hymen nearly fully closes up the vaginal orifice.

If the hymen is of the semilunar type, the ruptures are usually bilateral posteriorly, and present the hymen thus torn, in three segments.

When these cases are brought for examination soon after the commission of the act of rape, the hymen is seen with torn margins, which are red. The surrounding tissues are tender and swollen. The edges bleed on touching. The torn edges of the hymen heal quickly, usually within five to six days. Complete healing is present about eight to ten days, when, the tears appear shrunken and like granular tags of hymeneal tissue. These torn but healed edges never unite.