When any person is taken into Police custody in a physically injured condition or any person who is physically injured due to the use of force by a police officer complaints about his physical injury or the matter of sustaining injury comes to the notice of the Police Officer such person shall be taken before the nearest qualified medical practitioner and the medical practitioner shall seek and understand about the injury and the manner of its causation and record the same and shall render necessary treatment.

Provided that such person is medically fit to be taken before a Magistrate, he shall be produced by the Station House Officer before the judicial Magistrate having jurisdiction or before an Executive Magistrate if it is outside the jurisdiction of such Judicial Magistrate and the said Magistrate shall seek and understand details of the injured in respect of the matter in which the injury was caused.

Provided further that the injured is not in a condition to be produced before a Magistrate, the details of the incident and circumstances shall be furnished forthwith by the Station House Officer to such Magistrate and a copy of the said report shall be given to the medical officer and the injured and proper acknowledgement shall be obtained from them in writing.