Role of forensic psychiatrist in updating investigation of crime by mentally ill subjects.

ABSTRACT

Forensic medicine, the subject in undergraduate medical curriculum is becoming more and more important for undergraduate students. Forensic psychiatry is being very much felt an important part of crime and criminology and is being thoroughly neglected. We cannot ignore the mental status of a person in relation to commission of a crime as it is the case in all spheres of life. So updating forensic psychiatry in educational programme may play key roles in crime investigations. The law can judge the merit of a case on the basis of how far the mental abnormality might influence to commit a crime. Investigation of crime has to be a compulsorily team work consisting of man of forensic psychiatry or at least forensic medicine expert and the other investigating agencies.