1Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences, Jalandhar, Punjab, India
2Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Gian Sagar Medical College, Banur, Punjab, India
3Tutor Department of Biochemistry, Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences, Jalandhar, Punjab, India
4Professor & Head, Department of Forensic Medicine, Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences, Jalandhar, Punjab, India
* Corresponding author Dr. Puneet Khurana Phone: +91- 9855424114 Email: puneet_era@yahoo.co.in
Post mortem examination of a dead body is carried out to get the insight into the disease process as well as for the forensic application of medical knowledge. This study conducted is a small step to provide references for forensic people along with law enforcing agencies to know about the incidence of unnatural deaths so that we can try to reduce these unnatural deaths to minimum. In our study road traffic accidents cases are the commonest among various types of medicolegal post mortems followed by poisoning (9%), railway cases (6%), assault (6%) and fire arm injury (2%). Highest incidence of unnatural deaths is observed in males and the male: female ratio is 3:1.
Post-mortem Examination, pathological autopsy, medicolegal/forensic autopsy
