Victimology of homicide: A surat, (South Gujarat) based study.

ABSTRACT

Though “homicide” is simply defined as killing of one human being by another, various aspects like epidemiological and investigations in the Indian judicial system have large impact in terms of court trials. In any given case it involves fate of at least two families – “victim’s and accused’s”. In the present study comprising of 193 cases of homicide examined during the period of two years at the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology at New Civil Hospital and Government Medical College and Surat Municipal Institute of Medical Education and Research Surat, Gujarat, India. Various epidemiological and relevant medicolegal aspects deduced from the present study are highlighted in the present article.