Department of Forensic Medicine.
*Reprint requests: Dr. Manish Kumath, Senior Demonstrator Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxico Logy, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi-29.
The importance of ruling out artifacts from postmortem finding science they may lead to misinterpretation of the actual facts, and at times may becoming the deciding factors for a particular case. Artifacts may be regarded as any change caused or feature introduced in the natural state of the body that is likely to be misinterpreted at autopsy. A case report is reported where a young female infant of 3 months who had died naturally was brought to the mortuary by the police with a history of strangulation as stated in the MLC report.
