The police today order most medicolegal postmortem examinations and the executive magistrate orders some. Previously in some cities like Mumbai the coroner ordered them but now this system is abolished. In all these cases consent of the relatives is not needed. Establishing the cause of death may require proper preservation of organs for further medico legal investigations as the case may be. Sometimes some organs are retrieved for the purposes other than medico legal investigations namely for museum specimens or research or other academic purposes. Such academic exercise in good faith may lack consent, documentation etc. The article is presented to review least attended ethical and legal aspects and to open up a debate with reference to retrieving organs form medico legal case for academic and research purposes.
Retrieval, human organs, body parts, medico legal case (MLC), academic and research purpose, legal and ethical aspects
