Criminal Procedure Code · s 112A

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112A.
Body samples
(1) A police officer making an investigation under this Chapter may cause a body sample of a person to be obtained for forensic analysis if he has reasonable cause to believe that the body sample may confirm or disprove whether that person was involved in an offence punishable with imprisonment.
(2) If appropriate consent for a body sample to be taken is refused without good cause or cannot be obtained despite all reasonable efforts, that person may be taken before a Magistrate who may, if satisfied that there is reasonable cause to believe that the body sample may confirm or

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disprove whether that person was involved in an offence punishable with imprisonment, order that that person provide the body sample required.
(3) Where it is shown that the appropriate consent from a person was refused without good cause, the Court in determining whether -
(a) there is a case to answer against him; or
(21)
he is guilty of the offence with which he has been charged, may draw such inference fiom the refusal as it thinks proper and, based on such inference, may treat that refusal as corroboration or as amounting to corroboration of any relevant evidence against him.

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s 112ABody samples

(1)

A police officer making an investigation under this Chapter may cause a body sample of a person to be obtained for forensic analysis if he has reasonable cause to believe that the body sample may confirm or disprove whether that person was involved in an offence punishable with imprisonment.

(2)

If appropriate consent for a body sample to be taken is refused without good cause or cannot be obtained despite all reasonable efforts, that person may be taken before a Magistrate who may, if satisfied that there is reasonable cause to believe that the body sample may confirm or

disprove whether that person was involved in an offence punishable with imprisonment, order that that person provide the body sample required.

(3)

Where it is shown that the appropriate consent from a person was refused without good cause, the Court in determining whether -

(a)

there is a case to answer against him; or

(21)

he is guilty of the offence with which he has been charged, may draw such inference fiom the refusal as it thinks proper and, based on such inference, may treat that refusal as corroboration or as amounting to corroboration of any relevant evidence against him.