ABSTRACT
The present study was undertaken in the Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Rural Medical College, Loni, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. Aims and objectives to study the incidences of unnatural deaths in females with special reference to “DOWRY DEATHS” in which cases medico legal autopsies was conducted. Data of total 310 cases were collected for this study purpose from police panchnama, post mortem reports and through interrogation of the parents, relatives, friends, neighbors accompanying dead body. Majority of the female deaths were in the age group 26 to 30 years (24.56%) followed by age group 21 to 25 years (21.93%). In majority of the victims burns (50%) was the common cause of death followed by poisoning (17.1%) and vehicular accidents (16.45%). Majority of the married female victims (44.19%) died within seven years of marriage.
Subject(s)
Academic Medical Centers , Accidents, Traffic/legislation & jurisprudence , Accidents, Traffic/mortality , Adult , Burns/legislation & jurisprudence , Burns/mortality , Cause of Death , Death/etiology , Female , Forensic Pathology , Humans , India , Mortality , Poisoning/legislation & jurisprudence , Poisoning/mortality , Rural Population , Young AdultABSTRACT
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.
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Accidents, Traffic/complications , Accidents, Traffic/legislation & jurisprudence , Accidents, Traffic/mortality , Adult , Automobiles , Burns/etiology , Burns/legislation & jurisprudence , Burns/mortality , Fatal Outcome , Female , Forensic Anthropology , Humans , India , Male , Motor Vehicles , Socioeconomic Factors , Young AdultABSTRACT
The burn autopsies form the major bulk of autopsies carried out at most of the hospitals in India. A medico–legal study of fatal burn cases was carried out at Nanded (India) during the period of 3 years. These constituted 18.2% of the total medico–legal autopsies carried out during the same period. The majority of burn deaths were observed in the age group of 11 – 40 yrs (83.11%), with peak incidence in 21 – 30 yrs (39.5%) of age group. Female preponderance was seen in all age groups with male to female ratio 1:2.5. Most of the cases were from rural area (76.3%). In 189 cases (41.4%), total body surface area involved was more than 80%. Majority of the subjects died as a result of flame burns (92.3%), followed by electric burns (5.3%) & scald (2.4%). In 406 cases (89%), Kerosene oil was involved leading to fatal burns. Accidental burns were most common (70.8%), followed by suicidal (18.2%) and homicidal burns (10.9%). The majority of deaths due to burns were observed within 1 week (66.2%).