A retrospective study on homicidal autopsy cases at Government Kilpauk Medical College Hospital, Chennai
Journal Title: MedPulse -International Medical Journal - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Homicide means killing of a human being by another human being. This retrospective study analyses the data of 35 homicidal death cases during the period of January 2012 to December 2012. This study is carried out by analysis of data from postmortem reports, inquest forms, History of case and postmortem registers of the Forensic Medicine department. The analysis of the data done manually by calculator and excel spread sheet of windows 8. Our study reveals that the victims were mostly females (51.43%) followed by males (48.57%) and victims in the age grouyp0 of 20 – 29 years and 30-39 constituted (31.43%). The main motive was infidelity (25.71%) and sharp weapon injuries (54.29%) were the commonest pattern followed by Burns (22.88%) and (71.43%) of victims died on the spot. Homicidal deaths accounts for (1.15%) of autopsies.
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R Selvakumar, N Karthikeyan
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