1Tutor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Government Medical College, Bhavnagar
2Professor & head, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Government Medical College, Bhavnagar
Online published on 28 January, 2019.
The profiling of medico-legal cases is necessary in order to prevent the preventable casualties in future and to study the genuine crime rate in the area. Nowadays, road traffic accidents cause most of the casualties, which lead to many deaths.
This was a retrospective, record-based study of postmortems performed at the Medico-legal Centre of a tertiary health care centre in Bhavnagar region, Gujarat, in the year of 2017. During this period, a total of 1057 autopsy cases were conducted.
A total of 1057 cases were brought for medicolegal postmortem examination of which, maximum number of autopsies, 101(9.6%), were conducted in May, followed by 100 (9.5%) in October. Males predominated the females, 729 (69%) cases. Maximum number of cases, 257 (24.3%), were in the age group of 21–30 years. Accidental injury related deaths were more in number, 280 (26.5%). Natural deaths accounted for 245 (23.2%) cases, violent asphyxial deaths, 113 (100%) cases, and thermal injury accounted for 190 (17.7%) cases, followed by the poisoning 170(16.08%) cases.
It was observed that the most common cause of death is road traffic accident, probably owing to higher frequency of transportation.
Hanging, Burns, Poison, RTA, Mechanical Injuries
