A case of hanging with creeper in secluded place: Suicide or homicide?
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Medical Case Reports - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 6
Abstract
One of the principle roles of forensic pathologist while doing autopsy is to ascertain the manner of death, The manner of death is divided into natural and unnatural, the latter is subdivided into accidental, suicidal and homicidal.It is of utmost important to ascertain the manner of death to direct the investigating agencies to put on right path for further investigation.We have examined a case at government medical college and hospital, brought for medicolegal postmortem examinationwith history, the deceased was found in hanging position with a creeper called as ‘washimwel’ in local language which is very unusual ligature material and have never been documented in forensic literature. He was in partial hanging position to a tree in a farm at secluded place away from the village, His knees and hands were touching the ground in kneeling position. The relatives were suspicious about the manner of death and strongly pressurising the police to register a crime against unknown persons. The crime scene shows some beer bottles and eatables and cigarette buts near to the crime scene. But the vegetations near the crime scene were normal and showing no disturbance. But the place where the beer and eatables were present shows some disturbed area and crushed grass. From the overall crime scene investigation, postmortem findings and history collected by police it was concluded that most probably manner of death was suicidal and cause of death is given as “postmortem findings are consistent with death is due to hanging.”. Keywords:unnaturaldeath, suicidal, homicidal, postmortem
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Dr. LaxmanGangadhar Phad, Dr. HemantNamdeorao Ghangale
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