1Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Pramukh Swami Medical College, Karamsad, Anand, Gujarat, India.
2Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Surat Municipal Institute of Medical Education and Research, Surat, Gujarat, India.
Violence is a significant public health problem and homicide is severest form of violence, ‘depriving a human being of his right to live'. Homicide is prevalent widely almost all over the world. Epidemiological investigations of homicide have hefty impact in court trials of any judicial system of the country. In the present study, 4680 cases of medicolegal autopsies were examined during a period of 2 years (2004-2005), amongst these cases, 193 cases, which were determined to be homicidal, were taken in to the scope of this study. Various epidemiological and demographical parameters of the study are described in the present article.
Homicide, Methods, Motive, Relationship, Postmortem Examination
