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Background: With growing population, rapid urbanization and industrialization associated with high materialistic mind of human beings, incidence of unnatural deaths increasing in geometrical progression. Out of all unnatural deaths trauma plays the major role and head is the most vulnerable part to receive injuries in different manners. Methods: The present work was conducted in the department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology of M.K.C.G Medical College, Berhampur during the period from 01.01.2004 to 31.12.2005 and 207 cases of head injuries brought for post-mortem examination were taken into consideration as study materials. Each individual case was analyzed thoroughly with special attention to different types of intra cranial hemorrhage with relation to nature of trauma & other modified intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Results: It was found that all types of ICH are significantly found in males in all age groups of 11- 40 years i.e. 86 Males out of total 182(47.25 %) in compare to females i.e. 20 out of 182 (10.98%) and the type of hemorrhage was the SDH followed by mixed varieties. No remarkable sex wise differences were detected in the age group of 0-10 and 70 years and above. Conclusion: The autopsy surgeons are advised to open the cranial cavity in every case and to inspect the intracranial structures in detail.