What kind of inhuman, vile, degrading, demeaning, disgusting bullshit is this? And as recently as June 2010 the Maharastra government continue to use it in their forensic examination template.

Read the details at Human Rights Watch ‘Dignity On Trial Report (excerpt below):

Human Rights Watch examined 153 High Court judgments in rape cases across the country that referred to the finger test, all issued since 2005, and some as recently as 2009 and 2010.[89] This analysis shows that defense counsel and courts throughout India continue to invoke finger test findings in proceedings in rape cases.[90]

Doctors and activists say that the most common descriptions of findings from finger tests in medico-legal reports are: “two fingers admitted,” “two fingers easily admitted,” or “two fingers not easily admitted.”[91] In some reports these types of comments are combined with observations about whether the hymenal tear is “old.” Some doctors describe the vagina using different phrases such as “patulous vagina” or “distended vagina.” These findings are then used to give opinions about whether the rape survivor was “habituated,” “used to,” or “accustomed to” sexual intercourse.[92] The complete illogic of these findings is illustrated by cases where an examining doctor deposed that a survivor who reported gang rape was “habituated to sexual intercourse.” In some of these cases, judges pointed out that the gang rape itself could have caused the doctor to conclude that the girl or woman was “habituated” to sex.[93]