Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue: 1

A study of suicidal Death In Nagpur

1Assistant Professor, Forensic Medicine, Govt. Medical College, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

2Professor, Forensic Medicine, Govt. Medical College, Gondia, Maharashtra, India

3Assistant Professor, Forensic Medicine, Govt. Medical College, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

4Associate Professor, Forensic Medicine, Govt. Medical College, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Online published on 6 January, 2018.

Abstract

‘Suicide is characterized as the final common pathway of diverse circumstances, of an interdependent network rather than an isolated cause, a web of circumstances tightening around a single time and space1. The maximum number of suicide in young adult (20-40years) Maximum number of cases was in young adult (20–40 years).. Males nearly two times outnumbered the females. Majority were Hindus. Maximum number of suicide occurred in summer. Maximum suicidal death cases occurred in morning (6am to11: 59 am).

Keywords

Suicide, young adult, summer and morning