Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 40
  • Issue: 2

Homicide Disguised by Road Traffic Accident: An Autopsy Based Rare Case Report

  • Author:
  • Ashok K. Rastogi1,, Sanjay K. Dadu2, Bajrang K. Singh3, Tapan S. Pendro3, Rahul Agarwal4, Sanjeev Xaxa4, Nandeep Kushwah4, Pankaj Nema4
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 243 to 246

1Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, AIIMS, Patna, (Bihar)

2Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, MGM Medical College, Indore (MP)

3Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, MGM Medical College, Indore (MP)

4PG Students, Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, MGM Medical College, Indore (MP)

*Corresponding Author: E Mail ID: ashokforensic@yahoo.com

Online published on 4 December, 2018.

Abstract

We received a dead body of an unknown male, aged about 40 years, in the mortuary of MGM Medical College, Indore for postmortem examination. Preliminary investigation of the police showed case to be of road traffic accident (RTA). The body was completely crushed and mutilated due to run over by multiple heavy vehicles. After meticulous postmortem examination of the body, we came to the conclusion that death was due to asphyxia as a result of manual strangulation and that the body was thrown on a road with heavy traffic to disguise this as case of RTA. After the post-mortem report was received by the police, they registered this case as a murder (IPC 302) instead of the earlier RTA.

Keywords

Road Traffic Accident, Post-mortem Examination, Asphyxia, Strangulation, Murder