Background: Sexual assault against woman is one of the most common crime in Bangladesh. Objective: The purpose of the present study was to find out the medicolegal findings of rape victims and to analyze the data with respect to socio-demographic characteristics, relationship between accused and victim, medicolegal examination and evaluate the role of forensic examination in dealing with sexual assault cases.

Methodology: This was a retrospective study which was done in the department of Forensic Medicine, Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 1^st January 2018 to 31^st December 2018 with maintaining ethical issues. The data was retrieved from police forwarding letter; history revealed by the victim during examination, medicolegal certificates and results of forensic laboratory examination of the exhibits.

Results: We carried out a retrospective study of 404 alleged rape victims during the year of 2018. We found that 51.9% cases were sexually abused although high vaginal swab for spermatozoa was found to be negative in all cases. In this study, majority (47%) of the victims were with 14-17 years of age and 59% of the victims were unmarried. 43.3% of the victims were students & 44.5% were known to the victims.

Conclusion: In majority of the cases, there were no evidence of forceful sexual intercourse at the time of medical examination due to long post coital interval. Delay in medical examination resulted in loss of vital trace evidence. That’s why – “The allegation of rape is easy to make, hard to prove and harder to disprove.