Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Mamata Medical College, Khammam, Andhra Pradesh
A case of stab injury was admitted to emergency (causality) department of Mamata General Hospital Khammam. There was history of self inflicted injury. One stab wound and another contusion were found on left anterior abdominal wall. Patient was kept under conservative management under department of surgery and was discharged being cured after 5 days. The weapon of offence was also examined and it was confirmed that the weapon had penetrated up to the muscle depth and continued horizontally in the abdominal wall measuring 2.5x0.5x7cm. Fortunate for the victim was that the direction of thrust was horizontal rather than vertical or oblique resulting in a non fatal wound.
