1Department of Forensic Medicine, Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh Email: jagannadhamjayaraju@yahoo.com
2Department of Forensic Medicine, Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad
The unlucky deceased was a American who checked in to a star hotel in Hyderabad along with his colleagues on a company assignment. When his colleagues called him, at 11–30 am for a shopping spree, he has told them that he has back-ache and wants to take rest in his room. At about 2–30 pm again, when they contacted him on phone, no response came, at about 5–00 pm again as there was no response, with a master key the door was opened and the dead body of the deceased found on the carpet besides a long sofa with a metal beeding in a prone position with right hand under the chest and the left upper limb parallel to the body, with a disconnected cable of laptop nearer to his head which was still in switched on position. A dimmer light with a long pedestal was found beside the body with bulb towards head and base towards the feet. There was a plug point at floor level near the head of thedeceased, with a insitu adapter, as the pin of the laptop cannot be inserted, directly in to it. The adaptor was loosely hanging in the socket of the plug.
Dead body, Upper limb, Electrocution.