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17. So far as the legal position regarding the requirement of potency test, in cases where allegation has been made by the wife to the effect that marriage is not properly consummated and the husband is impotent and was incapable of consummating the marriage on account of his complete and total impotency is concerned, it may be pertinent to refer the judgment passed by this Court in the case of Jagdish Lal vs. Smt. Shyama Madan And Ors.3 in which it has been held as under :-

"7. Impotency means incapacity for accomplishing the act of sexual intercourse and by sexual intercourse, in this context, is meant not an incipient, partial or imperfect but a normal and complete coitus. Impotency is to be distinguished from sterility which may in some cases accompany impotency but is not necessarily associated with it, the two expressions denoting lack of two different powers. A person may be incapable of accomplishing the sexual act and yet be capable of procreating and conversely too, a person may be incapable or procreating and yet be capable of accomplishing the sexual act. The cause of impotency may be in the malformation or structural defect in the parts; in the functions, resulting in imperfect erection or premature ejaculation; in diseases, whether local or general or in the mind, manifesting itself a repugnance for the sexual act, fear, lack of confidence etc. It may also happen that a person is capable of having sexual intercourse but incapable of performing it with a particular individual, and in such a case the person must be regarded as impotent in relation to that particular individual regardless of his potency in general. These matters are too well settled to need reference to any medico-legal or legal authorities."