Rape, sodomy and murder of a minor girl.

In this short case of article on typical sexual assault, a 14 year old minor girl was killed and found in a ditch of a jungle nearby her house. The minor girl has died as a consequence of barbarous act of sexual assault, sustained bruises on labia, recent hymnal tears, and tears around anus with signs of ligature strangulation besides the generalized signs of asphyxia. The wearing garments were found torn at places with the presence of stains of mad and sand particles. The laboratory findings confirm presence of spermatozoa. The presence of marks of violence on the genitals of the child, when an early examination is made is the strong evidence that the sexual assault has been committed. The psychiatric analysis of all the accused of this kind of cases should be made mandatory for better assessment of the cases besides an active legislative and judicial actions, comprehensive quick approaches of investigative officers and healthcare providers.

The medico-legal autopsy -It‟s religious and social attitudes.

An autopsy is a post-mortem assessment or examination of a body. It is performed by a physician trained in the specialty and authorized by law. The approach of the forensic pathologist to the investigation of a death is different from that of the hospital pathologist. Several health care areas are dependent on people's willingness to dispose of their body or parts thereof after death, and the issue of procedures involving corpse‟s entails important and, to some extent, growing problems. At this time there were still strong religious and social objections to the autopsy. There are also difficulties in providing corpses for anatomy education. The reasons behind these problems are probably manifold; some would be connected with the attitudes of people in general. This short review paper describe briefly only of its practical aspect of medicolegal autopsy with a brief historical review on its “Religious and Social Attitudes”.

Fatal burn injuries in accidental vehicular crush a medicolegal study.

Vehicle explosions result deadly fires which causes loss of many lives. This study explores the way of identification of sixteen fatal burnt bodies following a vehicular crush where identification was so difficult because of incineration of few cases. The victims were mainly of lower socio-economic, under graduate, bachelor group and businessmen by profession. The common age group was 21-30 years with a male and female ratio 9:1. Urban was the place of incidents and that too at 10 pm at night in the month of December with heavy truck as offending vehicle was the classical features of this study. From the observations and analysis of the incident with due consideration of environmental factors, vehicular conditions like operation of old ill maintained vehicles in high speed in a restricted area, in coordinated functioning of various traffic control agencies at night etc, certain aetiologies are elicited and their preventive measures are suggested.