ABSTRACT
The Postmortem examination of bodies brought to mortuary can be conducted by medical officers or by Forensic experts. Usually this job is conducted by medical officers and in doubtful cases dead body is referred to Department of Forensic Medicine to conduct autopsy. Many a times the medical officer fails to see wounds or injuries, they not able to differentiate antemortem injury from Postmortem injury, sometime they are not able to differentiate hanging from strangulation and in cases of multiple injuries, they are not able to draw opinion regarding cause of death, mode of death and manner of death. At most of time these cases remain unnoticed and unobjectionable but in few cases in which relatives of deceased are not satisfied with Postmortem finding and they demand for Re-Postmortem examination by help of Forensic experts. Most of time Second autopsy is not able to draw any opinion regarding cause of death, mode of death and manner of death because of serious alteration and artifact during First autopsy, but one thing which is always highlighted here that First autopsy was not complete. In this paper is discussed a case report in which the medical officer at a district hospital conducted a Postmortem examination on the dead body of a young male, he has preserved viscera for chemical analysis and he was not able to draw opinion regarding cause of death. Later on Re-Postmortem was conducted at the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Govt. Medical College and New Civil Hospital Surat, revealed the cause of death as intracranial hemorrhage.