POST MORTEM HANGING- LYNCHING SIMULATING ANTE-MORTEM HANGING (Recent trend found in various cases studied)

Kavita Dwivedi; Dr. G. Khan

Volume : VIII, Issue : II, February - 2019

POST MORTEM HANGING- LYNCHING SIMULATING ANTE-MORTEM HANGING (Recent trend found in various cases studied)

Kavita Dwivedi, Dr. G. Khan

Abstract :

It is a common practice in india and many other countries, to kill a victim and them to suspend the body from tree or any other object to simulates antemortem hanging with suicidal hanging. It is therefore, necessary for law enforcing agencies including doctors and forensic experts to take special precautions while working on these type of cases. The ligature mark alone is not a diagnostic feature of death from hanging. Ligature may be produced, if a body has been suspended soon after death. In addition to ligature mark, dribbling of saliva from the angle of mouth, slight aasions around ligature mark ,ecchymosis laceration of the intima of the carotid arteries with extravasation of blood with in their wall are major signs of hanging. Besides these signs, there will be no evidence of struggle, scratches, nail marks and fatal injuries or poisoning signs and circumstantial evidences may also be taken into consideration. Keeping the above parameters into consideration, four different types of post–mortem.. hanging, stimulating suicide were actually homicidal.