A 45 years old male, a happy-go-jolly kind of a person, was found hanging by neck, with a ligature to the branch of a tree, on the outskirts of the village. Beneath the ligature, on the front of the neck, a cut – throat wound with broken anterior wall of trachea was seen, after which, the relatives complained of suspected murder, claiming that he was not a person who will commit suicide. The body was sent to Valsad civil hospital for Post-mortem examination, from where it was referred to Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Government Medical College and New Civil Hospital, Surat, Gujarat. This case is being presented here for two important reasons – A tripple suicide simulating murder & social issues which compelled a person to resume to as many means as possible, to kill himself.
Tripple suicide, hesitation cuts, bereavement, naphtha balls, volitional act
