P. M.
No : 57/2024
Date : 27/02/2024
Name : Ganga
Sex : female Age : 20 Years Caste & Religion : Hindu
Police Station : Chowk PS
UDR / Crime No: 12/2022 Under Section: 103 BNS
Body Identified By :
P.C. No : WPC 140 Name : Udayadevi
Police Station : Chowk
Date & hour of Receipt of Requisition : 27/02/2024 at 03:05 pm.
Date & hour of Examination : 27/02/2024 at 03:10 pm.
Date & hour of Despatch : 27/02/2024 at 04:30 pm.
Information furnished by police
As per the infromation furnished by the police in form No. 146 (i) and (ii), alleged h/o found dead at home at around
04am on 27/02/24.
(A) EXTERNAL EXAMINATION
Dead body was covered in a white hospital cloth.
Removal of the cloth revealed the body to be of an adult female, wheatish to dark in complexion, moderately built
and nourished, measuring 157 cm in length and weighing 54 kg in weight.
Body was cold and stiff all over (Preserved in mortuary cold chamber).
Postmortem lividity was present over the back and was fixed.
Blood is oozing out through nose and ears.
Pupils are dilated.
Petechial haemorrhage present over the face.
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All the other external natural body orifices were intact and unremarkable.
The following external injuries were present over the body:
1) ) Ligature mark: Pressure abrasion, reddish brown in colour, dry, hard, parchmentized, was present completely
encircling the neck at the level of thyroid cartilage with its length being 31.5cm and width being 1.2 cm, at a point 09
cm above suprasternal notch.
On the left side, the ligature mark is present at a point 3cm below the angle of mandible and 4 cm below left mastoid
process.
On right side, the ligature mark is present at a point 2 cm below right angle of mandible, 3.6 cm below the right
mastoid process.
Circumference of the neck at the level of thyroid cartilage was 32 cm.
All the aforementioned injuries were antemortem in nature.
(B) INTERNAL EXAMINATION
I)Cranium: Skull and Vertebrae, Membranes, Brain and spinal cord
Scalp and Skull: Intact and unremarkable.
Dura: Intact and tense.
Brain : Weighed 1125 g. Brain was soft, congested and oedematous.
(II) Spine and Neck : Bloodless layer by layer flap dissection of neck revealed haemorrhages under the ligature
mark. Muscles of the neck were ruptured, thyroid cartilage was fractured. Spine is intact and unremarkable.
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(III) Thorax :
1) Walls, ribs and cartilages : Intact and unremarkable.
2) Right Pleura :Intact and unremarkable.
3) Left Pleura :Intact and unremarkable.
4) Larynx and trachea :Tracheal lumen was empty. Tracheal mucosa was congested.
5) Right lung :Weighed 462 g;
6) Left lung :Weighed 307 g;
Both the lungs were soft, congested and oedematous. Blood stained fluid oozed out on cut section.
7) Pericardium :Intact and unremarkable.
8) Heart :Weighed 178 g; intact. All the coronaries were patent on cut section.
9) Large vessels : Intact and unremarkable.
(IV) Abdomen and Gastrointestinal tract :
1) Walls :Intact and unremarkable.
2) Peritoneum :Intact and unremarkable.
3) Mouth, Pharynx and Oesophagus: Oesophageal lumen contained scanty mucoid fluid.
Oesophageal mucosa was congested.
4) Stomach and its contents:Weighed 450 g; Stomach contained 70 ml of yellow coloured mucoid material with
no identifiable food particles and no abnormal perceptible odour. Stomach mucosa was congested.
5) Small intestine & its contents :Proximal part of the small intestine contained contents similar to that of
stomach.
6) Liver :Weighed 1240 g; Liver was congested on cut section.
7) Spleen :Weighed 280 g;
(V) Genito-Urinary Organs :
1) Right Kidney :Weighed 192 g; Right kidney was congested on cut section.
2) Left Kidney :Weighed 186 g; Left kidney was congested on cut section.
3) Bladder :Empty.
4) Organs of generation, external and internal :Intact and unremarkable.
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(C) INVESTIGATIONS :
The following tissues were sent to the Department of Pathology, ESIC Hospital, for histopathological examination,
and revealed:
1) Piece of lung
2) Piece of liver:
3) Piece of kidney:
4) Piece of skin from ligature mark:
5) Hyoid bone:
The following viscera and body fluids were sent to RFSL, in glass bottles for chemical analysis:
1) Entire stomach with its contents and proximal 30 cm of small intestine with its contents.(Preserved in saturated
solution of common salt)
2) 500 gm of liver with gall bladder and half of each kidney. (Preserved in saturated solution of common salt)
3) 10 ml of blood. (Preserved in sodium fluoride)
4) Sample preservative. (Saturated solution of common salt)
OPINION AS TO CAUSE OF DEATH : The Final opinion as to the cause of death from perusal of autopsy
findings, histopathology report and R.F.S.L. report is DEATH IS DUE TO ASPHYXIA, AS A RESULT OF
CONSTRICTION OF NECK STRUCTURES WITH A LIGATURE MATERIAL CONSISTENT WITH
STRANGULATION.
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