Volume : VIII, Issue : II, February - 2018

A Medicolegal Study of Death Due To Hanging in Varanasi Region

Dr Jaykant Kumar, Dr Manoj Kumar, Dr Mayank Gupta

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The incidence of hanging cases differs as per the variation in the community, geographical location and socio–economic condition etc in all over the world. The present study is done here, in the view to gain further knowledge and insight in to epidemiological and medicolegal trend of asphyxia death due to hanging to help in the process of crime investigation and administration of court of justice. So my present study was done between the duration of 1^st January 2016 to 30^th June 2017. 137 Cases were selected for the present study from dead bodies ought to the department of forensic medicine, institute of medical sciences, BHU Varanasi for medico legal autopsy examination, from the various police stations of Varanasi district.

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Dr JAYKANT KUMAR, Dr MANOJ KUMAR, Dr MAYANK GUPTA, A Medicolegal Study of Death Due To Hanging in Varanasi Region, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-2 | February-2018

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