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Essential requirement of medico-legal autopsy

  The essential requirement of medico-legal autopsy. Dr. Parikh in his book “Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology”, 5 th Edition page 83, has stated that:             The   essential requirements of a medico-legal autopsy are :   (a) it should be performed by a registered medical practitioner preferably one with special training or experience in forensic medicine (forensic pathology), (b) the examination should be meticulous and complete; and one should routinely record all positive findings and important negative ones, e.g. absence of skull fracture in a case of head injury, or absence of defence injuries in case of struggle,  (c) all information must be preserved by defence injuries in case of struggle, (c) all information must be preserved by written records, sketches, relevant photographs, and radiographs when possible, (d) evidentiary material, when recovered, should provide a factual and objective medical report for the law enforcement agencies keeping in mind that he may
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Under What Law Medical Officer is authorized to conduct postmortem

The medical officer  is authorized to conduct postmortem under a specific provision of law and is duly notified Punjab Government Notification No. 332, dated 3rd April, 1905. This Notification provides as under:- In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 174of the Criminal Procedure Code the Lieutenant Governor (Governor) is pleased to appoint the Medical Officer hereinafter named to conduct post-mortem examination under that Section and to rule that, except as provided in clauses 3 and 4, bodies for such examination hall be forwarded to authorized officer employed within the district where the case arises, to whom they can be brought by rail or otherwise in the shortest time. 1.       The authorized officers appointed under this notification are: (1)    all Civil Surgeons; (2)    all Medical Officers holding Collateral Civil Charges; (3)    all staff Surgeons; (4)    all Assistant Surgeons. 2.       Bodies for post-mortem examination shall be forwarded to Staff
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Gun Shot and Blackening of Skin

       If a firearm is discharged very close to the body or in actual contact, subcutaneous tissues over an area of two or three inches around the wound of entrance are lacerated and the surrounding skin is usually scorched and blackened by smoke and tattooed with inherent grains of gunpowder or smokeless propellant powder. The adjacent hairs are blackened and the clothes covering the part are burnt by the flame.   If the powder is smokeless, there may be a greyish or white deposit on the skin around the wound.   If the area is photographed by infrared lights, smoke also around the wound may be clearly noticed.   Blackening is found if a firearm like a shotgun is discharged from a distance of not more than three feet and a revolver or a pistol is discharged within about two feet. (Modi’s Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology)  
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How many types of Postmortem

       There are mainly two types of postmortem i) Clinical or academic postmortem        This is a postmortem medical professional conducted it with the consent of the relative to know the degree of illness for which the deceased was subjected to treatment for that illness. ii) Medico-Legal Postmortem This is also known as forensic postmortem.           This type of post-mortem is conducted on the call of the legal authority, which is responsible for the investigation of ascertainment of cause of death like sudden, insecure, natural, unnatural,                suspicious, suicidal, etc.          There are mainly two types of postmortem i) Clinical or academic postmortem        This is a postmortem medical professional conducted it with the consent of the relative to know the degree of illness for which the deceased was subjected to treatment for that illness. ii) Medico-Legal Postmortem This is also known as forensic postmortem.           This type of post-mortem
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Why Post-mortem is conducted

                      The basic idea and aim conducted postmortem of a dead human body  is:- i) to ascertain the cause of death. ii) status of health of the person before and after death. iii) Approximately ascertainment of time of death. iv) to establish the identity of the body. v) cause of death:- a) homicidal b) suicidal c) unnatural  d) natural e) accidental f) disease
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What are the laws governing Medical Practice?

 The eight most important laws in India control the upkeep of professional standards in education, acknowledgement of academic credentials, licensing of new medical professionals, and enforcement of disciplinary action against practicing allopathic, Ayurvedic, sidhe, Unani, homeopathic, nursing, and pharmacists. These laws are: a) The Indian Medical Degrees Act, 1916. b) The India Medical Council Act, 1956. c) The Dentists Act 1948. d) The Indian Nursing Council Act, 1947. e) The Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970. f) The Homeopathy Central Council Act, 1973. g) The Pharmacy Act,1948. h) The Clinical Establishment (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010.acknowledgment
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