The Delhi high court said that the virginity test conducted on a female detainee or accused under investigation whether in judicial or police custody is unconstitutional. The single judge bench of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma made this observation while hearing the Sister Abhaya murder case. Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma held that the virginity test conducted on Sister Sephy, convicted for the murder of Sister Abhaya in 1992 in Kerala, was unconstitutional, and further observed that the basic dignity of a person in custody has to be upheld, which had been flouted in this case.