RESUMO
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.