Importance of Crime Scene Visit: A Case Study

Crime Scene visit, is so necessary in coming to a conclusion in some of mysterious cases is a must, in Identifying the dead, time since death & cause of Death. Visit of crime scene, considering that the examination of the Locus of a crime is the duty of I.O. and also the Forensic Expert, when he views the body in situ. Thus, if a dead body is seen directly by Forensic expert without explanation by I.O in the P.M. Room, he may come to quite erroneous opinions about the origin of various injuries.

But when he sees the body in situ, with various surrounding objects, goes a long way towards avoiding such mistakes. However there are some occasions when preservation of the scene for the expert is waste of time in situations like, Deaths due to Accident, Assault, Stabbing, and Railway Track Deaths. These can be well recorded by photographs itself is enough in such conditions.