Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue: 2

Visit to a Scene of Crime to Determine Manner of Death

  • Author:
  • Ajit G Pathak1,, Kapileshwar M Chaudhari2, Ramesh K Gadhari3, Nilesh A Devraj3, Vijay T Jadhao3, Piyush S Gavale4
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 192 to 196

1Professor & Head, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, S.B.H. Government Medical College, Dhule, Maharashtra, India

2Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, S.B.H. Government Medical College, Dhule, Maharashtra, India

3Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, S.B.H. Government Medical College, Dhule, Maharashtra, India

4Tutor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, S.B.H. Government Medical College, Dhule, Maharashtra, India

*Corresponding author: Dr. A G Pathak Professor & Head of, Department, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, SBH Government Medical College & Hospital, Dhule, Maharashtra, India.-424001, Email id: ajitgpathak1@gmail.com

Online published on 27 July, 2017.

Abstract

Visiting the scene of crime, by the Forensic Medicine Expert who has conducted the autopsy is of immense value to determine manner of death and thus to solve mystery regarding the death. We are hereby presenting four cases in which we visited scene of crime regarding manner of death. In all the four cases, which we mentioned, highlights visit to the scene of crime by the Forensic Medicine expert after thorough medicolegal autopsy, to opine about manner of death so that proper justice to the case would be delivered.

Keywords

Crime Scene, Visit, Forensic Expert, Manner of death, Autopsy