Violence is a leading cause of preventable injury worldwide. Injuries accounted for 10.1% of the global burden of disease in 2013. The proportion of disability adjusted life years (DALYs) due to disability (YLD) is much higher for collective violence (69.1%).The main contributors to injury DALYs are road injuries (29.3%), self–harm (14.0%), and interpersonal violence (8.4%). Material and Methods: Present study is a hospital record based study carried out in Rama hospital and Research centre Kanpur (U.P). Where continuous service for medico–legal case is rendered Duration of study: All medico legal cases from April 2017 to March 2019 whose record was available in hospital record section were studied. Inclusion and Exclusion criteria All 851 cases between April 2017 to March 2019 with complete information which were included in the study and the cases with incomplete necessary information pertaining to the present study were excluded Results: The study showed that in assault victims there was male preponderance (73.7%) over females (26.3%). Total 851 assault cases observed in this study, out of which grievous injury were 698 (82.0%) and 119 (14.70%) were simple in nature. In 34 injuries (3.3%) opinion reserved pending further investigations. In our study majority of injuries on males (82%) were simple in nature while (12.9%) injuries were found grievous in nature. In females there was (16.9%) grievous injuries and (80.4 %) injuries were simple in nature. But in females only (2.7%) cases opinions regarding severity of injury were reserved pending According to site of injuries out of 851 assault cases maximum 445 (57.0%) injuries were inflicted over head & neck followed by 225 (26.4%) over anterior trunk 85 (10%) over back and 56 (6.6%) over upper and lower limbs