<span style="color: #222222;">Kerala Government has approved the medico-legal protocol related to medical examination of arrested persons and remanded prisoners. The protocol makes it mandatory that the application for medico-legal examination be handed over to a serving medical officer in the State or Central Service.<br />''<br />''Only in their absence, a registered medical practitioner in a private hospital can be entrusted with the task.<br />''<br />''According to an official release,  the medical examination should be performed by a woman medical officer if the arrested person or remanded prisoner is female. </span><br />