Manish Nigam

A Case Report a Playful Push in Swimming Pool Turned Into an Unintentional Act of Murder

Drowning is a form of asphyxia due to aspiration of fluid into air passages caused by submersion in water or other fluid and is mostly accidental. Drowning suffocation causes a lack of oxygen, resulting death in only a few minutes. An exception to this rule appears in victims who have been suddenly and rapidly submerged into ice-cold water. Mostly the death due to drowning is unintentional or accidental. 12 year old male child a good swimmer having history of drowning was brought dead to casualty by a security guard of the swimming pool which raised suspicions on the circumstances of death.

A Case Report Homicide under Disguise of Fall from Height

Battering of women has been a major problem in the community since years and irrespective of caste and socio economic status it has been persistent in our society. Most of the women in India experience some of the other form of physical violence from their partners during their married life. Battering of women is one of the most common recognised crimes in India, and most of them are settled within home and rarely they reach to the police station or court. Among these cases the history is misleading which makes detection of such crimes difficult. One such case was brought to mortuary of Sri Aurobindo Medical College and PG Institute, Indore in which history was given by her husband of fall from height. On Post Mortem Examination it emerged out to be the case of wife battering. This raises a big question, as to where else a woman can feel safe if they are not safe in their own home.

An Autopsy Evaluation of Defense Wounds in Homicidal Deaths

Evidence of defense wound indicates that the victim was awake and has resisted the offence. Absence of defense wound does not rule out homicide. On the contrary, absence of defense wounds in majority of cases clearly indicated that the victim was present in a place where he never anticipated risk to his life and was caused by a person who had an easy access to the place of crime, or the victim was asleep, unaware, unprepared or under the influence of alcohol/drugs. The present study was based on retrospective analysis of 218 homicidal deaths in three years period from January 2004 to December 2006 from autopsies done in the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal and Medico legal Institute, Home (Police) department, Government of Madhya Pradesh. Among total 218 cases included in this study, defense wound was evident in 73 cases i.e. 32.48%, of which 60.3% were on hand and 13.7% were on forearm and 26% were on both forearm and hand region. Defence wound was more common on left side (45.2%) than right (17.8%), because these are nearest to the perpetrator and consistent with the preponderance of right handed individuals in the population. In 37% cases it was present on both sides. The pattern of defense wound is discussed in detail in this paper.