Deptt. of Forensic Medicine Rural Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Institute, Saifai, Etawah.
*Corresponding author: E-mail: drmukeshy14_@radiffmail.com, Mobile No. 09411480753.
Dealing with a medicolegal case has always been a daunting task for an ordinary doctor. Dragging unnecessarily into legal battle, harassment by the law enforcement agencies, wasting precious time into the court of law, whenever called upon as a witness are common apprehension of a doctor. These fears always prompted medical fraternity to keep away from accident cases or any other case of medicolegal nature who is in real need of medical care.
Feeling aggrieved by the indifferent and callous attitude on the part of the medical fraternity at the various Staterun hospitals as well as private hospitals, in getting treatment for the serious injuries sustained by victims of the road traffic accidents, lead to filling of many cases in the court of law to protect their ‘right to life’ guaranteed by the Indian Constitution.
This paper deals with a case report of a victim which later on turned to be a medicolegal case after about one month of incident. Paper discuses all the issues involved from ethical, legal and in view of landmark Judgements of Apex Court on the issue of accident victims. Paper also deals in brief about the Constitutional obligations of the Government for preserving one of the most important Fundamental Right, ‘the right to life’ of its citizens.
Accident, medicolegal, emergency, victim, court
