1Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Adichunchunagiri institute of Medical Sciences, BG Nagar., Mandya, Karnataka, India
2Principal and Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Adichunchunagiri institute of Medical Sciences, BG Nagar, Mandya, Karnataka, India
3Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Adichunchunagiri institute of Medical Sciences, BG Nagar, Mandya, Karnataka, India
4Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Adichunchunagiri institute of Medical Sciences, BG Nagar. Mandya, Karnataka, India
Online published on 7 February, 2017.
Difficulties in the establishment of the identity in unknown dead bodies, and opining as to the cause and manner of death poses huge task to the forensic expert and also to help the enforcement agencies to zero on the culprit. Many a times the whole exercise may not yield fruit full result and the enquiry may become futile, reasons vary from inadequate and improper history, disinterested Investigating Officers.
Sometimes the body may be partially or completely burnt or decomposed or mutilated etc, this will in turn add on to the existing un fulfilled exercise. The present two year study was undertaken to examine the pattern of causes of death in unknown dead bodies.
Unidentified bodies comprised 20% of the total 174 cases subjected for postmortem examination. Majority of cases belonged to the age group 41–50 years. Majority of the opinions regarding the cause of death was due to respiratory failure as a result of pneumonic consolidation of lungs, followed by Coronary insufficiency and no definite opinion was furnished due to the extreme decomposition.
Identification, Unidentified bodies, Dead, Cause of death
