Homicides in district Sonipat in 2018 AD & comparison with all Haryana data

Gaurav Sharma; Deepshikha; Ambuj Jain; Vijaypal Khanagwal; Jaswant Punia; Sandeep Lathwal; Ginni Lamba; Sanjay Verma; Yogesh Goyal; Prakash Jha

Volume : IX, Issue : II, February - 2019

Homicides in district Sonipat in 2018 AD & comparison with all Haryana data

Gaurav Sharma, Deepshikha, Ambuj Jain, Vijaypal Khanagwal, Jaswant Punia, Sandeep Lathwal, Ginni Lamba, Sanjay Verma, Yogesh Goyal, Prakash Jha

Abstract :

Human life is the most beautiful gift from the God but when there is birth, death is inevitable. While there is only one way to be born, there are many ways to die. Death due to disease process is acceptable but death as a result of violent crime is unacceptable to the society. Taking away the life of one human being by another is the most heinous crime that can be perpetuated by a man. There is always a beast in every man, no matter, how civilized the world is today. Each society has varying rates within its different regions, cities, urban or rural areas. Apart from national and regional differences, homicides have been found to be related to socio–economic factors, sexual, ethnic and racial characteristics, size of the community, and age structure of the population. It is noted that across length and eadth of India; ‘jar’, ‘joru’, ‘jameen’, are the chief causes of murder. The various methods of homicidal deaths include assault by sharp weapon, blunt weapon, firearms, strangulation, homicidal hanging, smothering, drowning, burns, poisoning etc. As per an estimate, 42% of the global homicidal load is due to firearms alone, rest 58% being contributed by all other methods combined. The present study describes findings in Sonipat district of Haryana & compares the same with the state level data collected at PGIMS Rohtak in the thesis work as described in the paper