Pattern of suicides in North Karnataka

Out of 1784 cases brought for medicolegal postmortem examination in the Department of Forensic Medicine, Bidar Institute of Medical Sciences, Bidar during the period of 2005 to 2009 only 148 (8.29%) were of suicide.

Male predominate female and the most commonly adopted method of suicide is hanging (53.37%) followed by poisoning (23.64%). The highest number of suicidal deaths was seen in the age groups of 21–30 yrs (35.81%) and followed by 30–41 years age group (27.02%).