nsent: (1) No person authorized under law to conduct medical
treatment shall, in carrying out an experiment of any method relating
to medical treatment, surgery or drug on the human body, carry out
such experiment, without obtaining consent of the concerned person,
and, in the case of a child or person of unsound mind, without
obtaining consent of his or her father, mother or guardian, and
without giving information thereof to such person, father, mother or
guardian.
(2) Any experiment referred to in sub-section (1) shall be
carried out carefully, having regard to, inter alia, the possible effects
of such method, surgery or drug on human body.
(3) No person shall carry out physical examination of or
alter any organ of any one, or cause the commission of such act, with
intention to get any undue economic benefit or to breach the privacy
of a woman or with any other intention.
(4) A person who carries out, or causes to be carried out,
any experiment in contravention of sub-section (1), (2) or (3) shall be
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liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three
years and a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees.
(5) The offender shall be liable to the same sentence as
imposable for murder if the offence referred to in sub-section (1), (2)
or (3) causes the death of any one and to the same sentence as
imposable for grievous hurt if such offence causes grievous hurt to
any one.