1Department of Forensic Medicine, Government Medical College, Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India
2Department of Forensic Medicine, Shaheed Hasan Khan Mewati Government Medical College, Mewat, Haryana, India
3Department of Forensic Medicine, Government Medical College, Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India
4Department of Community Medicine, School of Medical Science & Research, Sharda University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
5Government Allopathic Medical College, Banda, Uttar Pradesh, India
6Department of Forensic Medicine, School of Medical Science & Research, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India
*Corresponding author email id: preeti4jan1990@gmail.com
This is a case considered to be a suicide by the police as it was depicted to be a case of partial hanging. During autopsy examination multiple injury marks were observed on the neck and fracture of hyoid bone. As the above mentioned findings are usually not seen in case of suicidal hanging, these unusual post-mortem findings lead the investigation from different medico legal angles by forensic expert. An attempt has been made in this case to correlate the presence of injuries on the dead body in relation to partial hanging.
Manual strangulation, Neck injuries, Fracture of hyoid bone, Contusion of neck muscles, Post-mortem hanging
