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Showing posts with label post mortem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label post mortem. Show all posts
Saturday, 23 May 2026

Forensic Delay and the Duty of the Sessions Court: Judicial Control Over Missing Scientific Reports in Sessions Trials

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Delay in receipt of a material scientific report can paralyse a sessions trial, weaken the truth-finding process, and undermine the constitu...
Sunday, 12 January 2020

Supreme Court: Post mortem report will prevail over inquest report in case of inconsistency

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 As far as the injuries in the Inquest report not being noticed in the post-mortem report is concerned, there can no doubt that the medical...
Tuesday, 31 December 2019

When postmortem report can be treated as substantive evidence without examining doctor?

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Learned counsel for the appellants at the first instance submitted that the doctor, who conducted the postmortem examination of the de...
Monday, 21 October 2019

Whether time of occurrence can be doubted on ground that digested food has been found in stomach of deceased?

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The appellant has sought to prove that the time of death was also not proved as evidence from P.W.1 and P.W.3 came that they had gone ...
Thursday, 28 December 2017

Whether time of death can be ascertained by presence or absence of food in stomach of deceased?

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 Now, we shall deal with the other aspect of the argument advanced on behalf of the Appellants i.e. in relation to uncertainty in the time...
Friday, 5 May 2017

How to appreciate evidence if there is discrepancy in injury certificate and post mortem report?

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The third point raised before us is that in the wound certificate (Ext. P-4) there are only two injuries, i.e. bone fracture of right l...
Thursday, 4 May 2017

How to ascertain that death was due to strangulation or due to drowning?

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According to Modi's Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology 'strangulation' is defined as the compression of the neck by a for...
Saturday, 25 January 2014

Supreme court directed where poisoning is suspected, immediately after post-mortem, viscera should be sent to FSL

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Supreme Court: Taking note of the fact that in several cases where poisoning is suspected, the prosecuting agencies are not taking steps t...