Death Due to Constriction of Neck: a Case Report

Death due to constriction of neck may broadly result due to hanging, strangulation with ligature material or manual strangulation i.e. throttling. Sometimes due to external postmortem appearance of the ligature marks on neck, it becomes difficult for the autopsy surgeon to clearly state whether the constriction of neck is homicidal or suicidal in nature. One such case is being discussed wherein the cause of death was given as asphyxia due to ante-mortem constriction of neck by a panel of autopsy surgeons, leaving a scope to the police authorities to further investigate the crime in which a criminal case of murder was registered against the alleged accused just on the statement of the brother of the deceased who otherwise was not the eye witness to the crime scene.