court jokes

1) This one happened at the principal sessions court, Trichur, when Sri. Gopakumaran Nair was theHon: Judge. In one murder trial the defence lawyer was very much keen & adamant to see that I should give an answer to the question put forward by him as follows:- how much time it will take for the blood smear on the weapon to get completely dried up ? The Hon: judge prevented him from asking this question to an expert witness & more over the doctor is not the person to answer the question ;because it is depended on so many factors. But the defence won't give up. Finally the Hon: judge came with a solution. I will ask a question to you, If you can answer, the doctor will answer. The question goes like this." You are on a holiday all alone in your home. You are having a good quantity of clothes to wash. After the washing, you have put some clothes in the sun &some in the shade. When these two group will get completely dried up? The defence counsel had a very pathetic look & replied he can't".



2) In another case myself presented before the Principal sessions court, Kassargode. Hon: Judge Sir. James was the presiding officer. During trial the prosecution showed me a dried small branch of a tree to know whether this could produce injuries on the extremities (# of forearm & leg bones). I told him it can produce these injuries in its" original state". The judge was frowning his forehead for few seconds & suddenly began to laugh with stamping his feet on the ground& clapping his hands. He was asking the Public prosecutor whether you followed the answer. He made a comment" YOU ARE THE REAL POLICE SURGEON". What I meant was at this stage the twig is a dried peace of wood & it will only break if used with force. In its original state means when it is fresh.
After hearing the comment I was in an elated mood & answering questions put forward by both advocates. When everything was over the Hon judge was making a comment again. You have given answers to the questions put forward by both prosecutor & defence & after hearing your answers I am having certain doubts to clarify. You can get down from the defence box only after clearing all my doubts. By hearing this I felt a little bit perplexed & confused. On total I have spent more than four hrs in the witness box.
3) In another sessions case at Trichur The defence lawyer did not get any answers as anticipated to those questions put forward in his favor. At last he made a comment " your opinion as to cause of death is not correct" I replied back " in that case I would request the learned defence counsel to give a correct answer so that I will be benefited in future".

Dr.N.Rajaram

Dead man tell tales

This particular case was presented as the deceased suffering from diarrhea & he was taken to hospital & while the doctor examined him, he was found dead. The dead body was buried in Baddiudukka/Bandudukka Muslim burial ground. We reached the burial ground by 1500hrs. There was huge crowd & found it difficult to get inside. With the help of deputy superintendant of police Sri.Ponnan Bhaskaran, we managed to get inside. There was pin drop silence. No body came forward to dig the grave & we were able to hear some murmurs in the form of protest.
Immediately the deputy superintendant of police requested the head man to start the digging. Then the head man was saying” who ever had made the compliant can do the job. Then one tall lean figure came forward & started the job. After few minutes we saw him falling into the partly dug grave. Then the whole police force was yelling with rage. It is well known that only Muslims are allowed to do the last rites & also in the preparation of grave when a Muslim dies. On seeing the non-cooperative attitude of the local inhabitants, the DYSP ordered his men to complete the job. The police personnel removed their uniform & did the job well. The body was taken out & put in a wooden table. Immediately I could notice # of both angle & wrist joint. & because of erosion of soft tissues due to decomposition it was clearly visible. There was some kind of blackening (degradation of hemoglobin) indicating ante mortem nature. The above finding was also noticed by Sri. Mohandas, my assistant. His observation is superb not only with this case, but to all cases he used to assist. He needs a good compliment. The soft tissues over the neck region was completely gone . Closer examination revealed # of thyroid & cricoid cartilages. Another interesting finding was the presence of carbamate (insecticidal compound) as violet colored granules. It will be having sandy texture because the chemical is imbibed in sand. Viscera were preserved for chemical analysis & later turned out to be positive for carbamate.
Now we try to analyze what happened contrary to the first information report. The deceased was a man aged 50-60 yrs & job was selling fish. Most of the time he won’t be in the house & in his absence his wife indulged in prostitution with proper support from her own father. To begin with he was a silent spectator, later on he used to quarrel with them & one day it ended in his death. In order to escape from the crime committed they first sought the story of the deceased developing uncontrolled diarrhea & died on the way. Next they got the silent support of MULLAKA to bury the dead body in the grave.
The deceased was a brother in Bombay & he came to know of the sudden demise of his elder brother due to diarrhea. He suspected some foul play & raised his voice to find out the truth. He was immediately overpowered by the people concerned & locked in a room. Somehow he escaped & reported the matter to police. He was the man who was asked to dig the grave & later on collapsed into the grave.
The opinion that I gave was the deceased died of strangulation & poison was administered into his system prior to death. The long bone injuries could have also contributed in the causation of death.
The case for posted for trial before the Principal Sessions court Kassargode & Sri. James was the Judge & culprits were convicted.
Some interesting incidents occurred to me during trial & will narrate separatley.
Dr.n.rajaram

Antemortem hanging/?perimortem suspension

When you study cases of hanging over a period of time, suicidal cases are more common than accidental & homicidal. Perusal of literature also shows that accidental/homicidal are not uncommon. Iam going to describe one such case of hanging in which the person could have been suspended when he was alive.

One such case occurred few years ago in the Kassargode district of Kerala. Like any other case brought for medico-legal autopsy this case also came. The body was in a state of decomposition. No salivary dribble mark could be appreciated. The time since death could be >48hs &<72hrs. There was a pressure abrasion over the front & sides of neck. The cuticle over the region of pressure abrasion was not peeled off completely. In other areas it was almost peeled off. No other injury/injuries externally. On opening the abdominal cavity more than one liter of fluid blood & clot escaped. I made a search for the source of bleeding & found complete irregular laceration of liver. The laceration of liver is an unusual finding in a case of hanging. The possibility of the victim sustaining the injury by a tear of the ligature material disproportionate to the body weight is very uncommon. It can only be produced by repeated kicking or by use of some blunt weapon.
After the postmortem examination I explained to the charge Head constable that I suspect foul play & the case should be investigated well. He was about to say something & he suddenly stopped & assured me that .he will meet me another day.
Few days after he came & narrated the whole event. The deceased & his brother are settlers from KOTTAYAM. They are doing business together. Both of them are immensely rich & are having ancestral property in common. These two people controlled The whole activity of the police station. They will decide what should be done & what should not be done. Gradually there occurred business rivalry & dispute over the ancestral property. One day the elder thought of killing his younger one & for that he engaged a hired killerBy paying Rs 25,000. The hired one approached the younger brother known very well & informed the matter. On hearing this the younger one paid him Rs50,000 & asked him to kill his elder one.
With this in mind the hired killer approached the elder on a rainy night & informed him that they can a have a talk over the dispute infront of his younger brother before killing him. The elder one agreed & three of them went out.
The next day evening the elder brother’s dead body was found in a ditch without any ligature material. When the body arrived for autopsy it was in a decomposed state. According to the police the hired killer & the younger brother gave multiple kicks over the abdomen. All of them were completely drunk & they tried to hang him alive or in the peri- mortem state. Any way the person survived over a period of time as evidenced by presence of blood clot. The same Head constable wrote the same in a separate letter addressed to me stating also his token of appreciation. This letter I kept along the detailed notes in the department.
After that the Sub inspector approached me to inquire about the manner of death. I told him that it could be a case of homicide. Hearing this he tried to move away from the department by saying that it is only suicidal; but I forced him to remain there to takedown my statement & which was written by another charge police constable, because of the fact that the sub inspector informed me that his hand writing was poor.
He reached his station & informed the circle inspector that the doctor who conducted the autopsy had disclosed the manner of death. On hearing this younger brother was put behind bars. Two constables who were on duty on the night in which the younger brother was put behind bars came & expressed their gratitude to me for having proved the case by postmortem examination.
The opinion that I gave was the post mortem examination were consistent with death due to hanging & he could have sustained blunt injury abdomen prior to hanging.
Dr.N. RAJARAM

A case of shot gun injury

The history of the case goes like this. An elderly Hindu male had affection with a middle aged Muslim widow. He used help her by all means. This affair went for a period when he was no longer able to tolerate the monetary extraction. One afternoon when she was washing her clothes in the nearby river he shot her with a shotgun. She died & he consumed poison( organophosphorous compound) & admitted in a hospital & recovered to meet the trial
The trial was at additional sessions,Manjery. Thrice the case was adjourned. The defence counsel was the son of former director general of prosecutions. He told me he is able to thrive well because of one or two doctors in the same speciality supporting him; mainly making him knowlegable with forensic pathology tit-bits to cross examine the medical witness. I told him you are very lucky.

In this case also he tried his level best with assisted knowledge but failed miserably. When the court was about to be adjourned he informed me that during the previous trail for other cases by represented by him & medical expert myself ;all the cases ended in conviction. I told him in reply that you were given good coaching by experts & what happened?

The defence he put forward was " COMMATIO - CORDIS" - a non penetrating trivial injury involving heart which affects the electrical conduction of the heart. This kind of information can be fed only by a forensic medicine specialist. In this case the firing was from a distance ,made out by spread of shots. There were mutiple penetrating injuries by pellets involving,heart,lungs & liver. So many pellets were recovered.
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three cases of ligature strangulation involving taxi drivers.

There was a time I used to do same type murder cases over a period of time. The stories in combination is an example for that. The main thing in common ;all were recovered in a decomposed state. Two of them are young boys & the third one aged between 55-60 yrs. In all these the cabs were hired for travel to distant places. Modes operands ligature strangulation accomplished by the assailant/assailants preferring rear seat of the car. In the case of middle aged man he was given frooti mixed with phenobarbital. It was also detected during chemical analysis. The ligature mark & other injuries to the neck structures were bare minimum. In the other two cases there were # of thyroid cartilages with contusion of soft tissues of the neck. Injuries in the form of contusion were seen in the two bodies mentioned above & recovered from water. The middle aged person's body was recovered from the 9th hair pin bend kozhikode- thamarassery ghat road. It is said that this is the common place to dump dead bodies. Those cases recovered from water were located at Kadalundi river & the other . one from some pond in wayanad district.( Both of them were unknown) All these cases were convicted With respect to kadalundi case the special PublicProsecutor was Late Mr. Kunjiramapuduval & I had a very hectic time in the court. The name of the defence is not in my mind now. When the verdict was announced the inhabitants of Vadakara arranged a gathering to felicitate the advocate & police officers as a token of gratitude to the victory with respect to the unknown boy later identified as Mr------- from vadakara.
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In government service one can't choose their Boss or subordinates. At one time I was staying at cherpulassery & commuting to trchur daily &the kadalundi case was subjected to autopsy at that time. The body arrived during forenoon & there was no other case pending for autopsy. The associate professor waited till 3.00pm to allot the case only to me, to see that Iam leaving to my residence very late. There were some seniors with sadistic mentality.
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Two cases of fall from height turned out to be murder

& scene visit confirmed that it was a case of assault & PM disposal simulating fall from heightIam going to narrate only the history of the two cases that came for routine autopsy. But after Pm examination turned out to be homicide. 1) Body recovered from a 2nd platform in a panchayat water tank. History was he fell down from the tank. The nature of injuries & recovery of the body not from the ground but from the platform clearly indicated that it could be a case of homicide ,which turned out to be correct. H/O The person was aged 18-20 & used to occupy a position in the above platform for visualising females taking bath in the bathroom without roof attached toGovt quarters& he used to masturbate simultaneously. The peeping tom was reported to their respective husbands,. At first he was warned. But he repeated & was manhandled & killed by One JuniorEngineer,overseer & driver.
2) The wife manhandled her spouse( a drunkard) along with her two children for creating problems in the house daily . H/O was fall from height. Pm examination revealed the person couldnot sustain a fall as described in the request for postmortem examination. he had sustained contusion of neck ( a protected region)& depressed # of frontal & parietal bones with intracranail bleeding. Scene visit confirmed the findings during autopsy& three of them were arrested & tried in I additional Seesions court , TRICHUR.
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A case of firearm injury depicted as heart attack by the police

This is a very interesting case where I have spent a very large span of time while during autopsy. This case was presented by the InvestigatingOfficer as a case of heart attack buried in the cemetery without informing the police. The relatives are having suspicion as to the cause of death. He also told that he got an injury on the back & outer aspect of chest on the left side while he was moved to the hospital in an auto rickshaw. The culprit for the causation of injury was a nail on the inner side of the rickshaw close to seat. I was deputed for this . Next morning I went the cemetery & to my surprise I saw two persons cleaning the decomposed dead body. I have attended a number of exhumations & in no such cleaning processes were noticed. The then ASssistant superintendantofPolice was watching all these & I shouted at him like anything & he replied that he did not know the consequences. After that I went near the dead body& noticed an oblique wound of rifled firearm injury on the left outer aspect of chest; produced by a revolver. ( No blackening,grease collar,& tattooing)No other injury was therein other parts of the body. With extreme caution, after noting the preliminaryfindings I searched for the presence of bullet. I was able to notice the wound of entry in the VII inter costal space with ricochet at the vii rib & wound getting terminated at the lower lobe of left lung. More than I litre of blood with blood clot was taken from the chest cavity. When the wound track ends in the substance of the lung; the bullet can get outof the body in the following ways.1) When he was alive if it gets in to the main bronchus he can cough it out.2) After death there is increase of intrathoracic & abdominal pressure due to decomposition& it can get out of the bodythrough mouth. 3) It can also get into the oesophagus by the person gulping it down while alive & track down to large intestine. 4) If it is getting into circulatory system by any means it can produce bullet embolism. I searched the body cavities, body parts by remembering all these possibilities but could not found any. I even searched inside the pit with my bare hands& the same was fruitless. I had the opportunity to examine the red& black check shirt worn by the deceased & could make out wound of entry corresponding to the external wound. Blackening was there, grease collar, burns effect & some quantity of power stripling. The wound track was taken from there along with ribs,soft tissues, lung etc for X-ray & found nothing except particles of sand. Discussion with the HOD revealed the fact that it is unwise to give an opinion as the deceased died of firearm injury sustained to chest involving the lung. Actually this was in my mind. The opinion given was the deceased died of penetrating injury sustained due to a projectile. In the meantime every description suits that of firearm injury. The greatest mistake committed by me was1) Not taking an X-ray of the body( A trial was made & no private hospital allowed it) 2) Giving the opinion as due to projectile. By this opinion I gave the police an opportunity to think in terms of bomb blast. Later on investigations assumed that i was good for nothing & did not to inter pert the finding correctly etc.in different levels in the police department. An year afterwards an shocking news came in the newspapers" DR.UMADETHAN & DR. GEORGE PAUL could recover a bullet from the decomposing left lung using metal detector. A turning point in the investigation!!!. I felt depressed & even cursed my inability. Later on while I went to give evidence at the THODUPUZHA seesions the ballistic expert Sri. JAMES made a sarcastic statement to me" The bullet recovered in the above case did not match with the suspect weapon". In other words the test bullet & crime bullet did not tally!!!. What does it mean. I didnot make any comment.The reader of this blog can guess.
Years after I was questioned by the CBI & I gave a very detailed statement explaining every thing happened with the case.At last the accused were arrested by CBI & trial was conducted at the CBI court EKM. I went there one day prior to my trial to have a discussion with the special PublicProsecutor & I was given an appointment only on the day of trial. Without any knowledge of firearms & without studying the case properly by thePublicProsecutor,the meeting ended in a big quarrel. He was prepared enough to say that the fault is mine for not recovering the bullet. Twice I was called into give evidence & do not know what had happened with the judgement.The thing that I know was 1) The wife & son of the deceased committed suicide. 2) In a Malayalam weekly recently Dr. umadethan proclaimed that because of his effort only the case was proved. He never mentioned that he was doing the II or the III autopsy & the first one was conducted at Medical college Trichur. I rang him & iformed him that what he did was wrong.Now Iam very happy to say that he deserved the credit.
dr.n.rajaram

REVENGE OF FRIEND IN NEED

Edgar Oswald man aged 53-58yrs ,bachelor,living alone in Malappuram district used to entertain his friends with liquor & in turn the friends used to a share a woman with him according to the need.
On afternoon A dead body was brought for autopsy from this area. The dead body & myself were entering the mortuary together. To my dismay I was profuse bleeding from the left eye of the victim. I enquired this with the IO & he told me that it is ant bite. I was not convinced. Anyway after initial preparation ,I made the general examination & looked for ante mortem injuries. I found some abrasions at different parts f the body; contusion in the form of boggy swelling over the back of head. Closer examination of the left eye revealed that the eye ball is almost completely scooped out except for a little attachment with the periorbital tissues.In addition to the above I noticed an incised wound at the outer angle of left eye& temple(1.5cm) with tailing outwards.This finding proved that a sharp weapon was used for this job.
Internally there was sub dural & subarchenoid hemorrhages. Viscera & blood preserved for chemical analysis prooved + ve for ethyl alcohol.opinion as to cause of death furnished as the deceased died of head injury & injury in the eye was also sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death.I felt that the eye injury could have been produced during the perimortem period .
Subsequent investigation revealed the following.
One day a teen age daughter of one of the accused went in search of her father into Oswald's house. He was not there,but oswald tried to molest this girl & out of fear she ran away & conveyed this to her father. Her father was waiting to get an opportunityto take revenge. One day they were enjoying together with drinks & woman. After that there occured a verbal combat followed by physical in which he sustained the head injury & out of rage he scooped out his eyeball. On seeing all the woman escaped from there in autorickshaw & the auto driver was made one witness. All these persons were arrested & the case came before Principal sessions Manjery. During trial all the witnesses including the prostitute became hostile ; because they got their visa to Gulf country. I was the only person for the dead. The prosecutor was also not interested.The accused were defended by Adv. Kunjirama menon & I had a tough time. In the re-examination I was forcing the PP to ask questions to counteract the defence's plea. The fate of the case was that all the accused were acquitted for want of evidence.

Prior to my court appearence while I was in my home at Velappaya; two persons belonging to CPM faction approahed me telling that I should say "YES"only to the questions put forward by the advocate;they didnot mention whether prosecution or defence. I just kicked them out in my own style.
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An un detected case of ligature strangulation

This occurred in the year 1988-89. A body involved in pattambi policestation crime & recovered from a temple pond in pattambi taluk was brought for autopsy. The hands & feet were tied separately with coir rope.The manner in which the hands & feet were tied could not be tied by the person himself. There are instances in history where a person tied his hands & feet & jumped into water.Signs of submersion could be made out& the body was in a very early state of decomposition. Examination revealed an oblique ligature mark oblique&across the middle of thyroid cartilage& it was having a pattern to that of a rope(7-8cm) Underneath there was infiltration of left sublingual gland. The other neck structures were free of injuries. There were no other injuries on the body. Viscera & blood preserved turned out to be -ve for poisoning.
I used to discuss cases with my seniors at that time & also till my retirement & after that also. This particular case was presented before my HODat that time & my opinion " The pm findings were consistent with death due to ligature strangulation" was acceptable to him. Later on when the Investigating officer was not able to proove the case; the same HOD became hostile towards me. & he answered the questioner put forward by the investigating officer. It went to such an extend that he even proclaimed to tarnish my image. He gave a statement that Iam an inexperienced person & donot know anything. In a stage of decomposition the neck creases will be misinterpreted as ligature mark.At the end he quoted " possibility of death due to ligature strangulation cold not be ruled out." !!??
Later on the case was submitted before the Medico-legal advisor to kerala police & he stated that the ligature mark!! Whether patterned? Imay ask now. At the end of his statement he opined that theligature mark was there& it could have produced by the person tying a rope around the neck & the other end of the rope was tied around a granite stone & the person tied his hands & feet & jumped into water. Using a motor pump the police drained the water from the pond & they were not able to locate the rope,stone etc.
Till this date nothing is known about the case.
Iam in darkness with regard to the strange behaviour of my HOD. Now we are in good terms.
dr.n.rajaram

A case of smothering

This case occurred in the year 1985-86 period. A dead body was brought for Pm examination by 1500hrs on an holiday from Anchal police station limit. The deceased was a hunchback of short stature with multiple crescentic abrasions around the external orifices. He was edentulous. The stomach contents had a smell of ethyl alcohol.Dr. Sivasuthan,now professor at MC,Kottayam was also there with me. We had no doubt about the cause of death. But to confirm once again , myself sought the help of one Asst.professor living in the MC premises through telephone. For that I got a good dose of scolding from him for having disturbed his afternoon sleep / peace & tranquility. Moreover he reported the matter to then HOD. Next day The HOD tried to strip me completely in front of others by bombarding me with questions, but I withstood the above & gave my statement to the police that the person died of SMOTHERING. Later investigations revealed that my deduction was correct. A gist of what had happened is as
follows. The deceased & his friend took country liquor & after that both had a quarrel & scuffle & in that the denture worn by the deceased came out & (the same was recovered later by the police) the hunch back was smothered.
In cases of smothering if you are able to make out crescentic marks it is invariably followed by laceration & contusion of mucous membrane of mouth. If it is an infant or adult person the injuries may not be there.
The case was tried in pathanamthitta sessions court . At least for 4-5 times I appeared before the bench. The interesting fact is that there occurred mutual exchange of accused & witness due to political influence & I am not having any idea of what happened with the judgement till now

A simulated case of railway accident

This case also underwent autopsy at Medical college,Trichur. during 1989-90 period. A case under kodakara crime was brought for pm examination with an H/O railway accident. The injuries that I noticed donot match with the pattern of injury in railway accident,viz bilateral testicular contusions, cane marks spread over different parts of the body, abrasion caused by thorn, bilateral rib # at various levels, Contusion lips with laceration of mucosal aspects of lips,old healing subdural hematoma. More over the stomach was empty & the mucosa pale with a garlicky odour simulating zincphosphide. Chemical analysis turned out to be +ve for zincphosphide. Final opinion was given as the deceased died of zincphosphide poisoning & the injuries fond on the body except abraions & cane mark are independantly sufficient to cause death.
Investigation revealed the person belonging to Vadakara & he left the place telling that he is going to sabarimala. Prior to the day when the body was found near the railway track, he was seen wandering near the Aloor railway gate & he himself bought one fish from a vendor selling fish & was seen sqeezing the fish over the injuries on his mouth. He recived the injuries on the day prior to his presence at railway gate. Because of the old subdural hremorrhage he waas not oriented in space & time & he went to a house where preprations for a marriage was going on. Youngsters there manhandled him by his bizaare behaviour & sent him out.During the same night after he visited the raiway gate ,once again he went to the same house , the very same boys caught him & tied his hands over his back & made to walk along the railway tract& gave him good kicks over the gentials. The police were able to proove the manner of production of injuries except the manner in which he was poisoned. The persons involved were concerned with horticulture.The investigating officer even made a request that I should ommit the role of poisoning & include the fact that the deceased died of injuries sustained. I told him a very big NO.

When the case was heard in the court, the prosecution as well as defence didnot have anything to ask & the case was acquitted.

A case of ligature strangulation & perimortem burns

This case refers to a 80 yr old spinster was living alone under the viyyor police station limit. During 1989 one fine morning body of the above female was brought for pm examination. She was dressed in pure white clothes with smell of kerosene& was about to be moved for burial. The locals raised suspicion. Examination revealed ligature mark over the neck with superficial burns over the back. There was injury to neck structures in the form of contusion. One curious finding is that the portion of thyro-hyoid membrane with hyoid bone was missing. The soft tissues adherent to the thyroid cartilage was calcified & opening into the pharyngeal inlet was reduced to pinpoint size. Further inquiry revealed that she had carcinoma larynx & was operated upon.
Investigating officer narrated the events that occurred on that night. The deceased was living adjacent to her sister's house & everyday she would whisper to her sister that the latter should take care of her since she is not able to speak loud. The deceased had the habit of taking liquor every day. The errand of buying the liquor was carried out by an adolescent male with whom she used to share. On that night the boy tied to attack her with the intention having forceful sexual intercourse with her. The attempt was not successful & he killed her . During the struggle a kerosene lamp fell down & her back portion of the body got drenched in kerosene.
There was no injury to external genitalia & the hymen was intact. The vaginal smear & swab preserved for chemical Analysis to rule out spermatozoa & semen turned out to be -ve.

The Case was posted in the principal sessions court ,Trichur for trial.By that time the adolescent turned out to be a 60 yr old male at the time of giving evidence in the court during the 90's & the person was acquitted.
dr.n.rajaram

A Traffic accident?

Most of the interesting cases occured while i was working at MC Trichur. During 1988-89 I conducted autopsy on a muslim male involved in Mannuthy police station limit. The person was having only one antemortem injury over the forehead with depressed # of right side of frontal bone with subdural & subarachenoid hemorrhage. I specifically informed the IO that the possibility of sustaining the injury during an assault may have to be ruled out. But he was more preoccupied with a traffic accident not witnessed by anyone & the above was supported by the then HOD. A scene visit was arranged which again confirmed my findings. THe IO was of the opinion that he was drunk & his head got struck against a hook in the side of an interstate loory having a large body. That case was also closed for ever.
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A case of Hanging

During my posting at Medical college,Trivandrum, I conducted autopsy on a 11yr old female who died of hanging. The external features were bleeding from ears, nostrils,subconjunctival hemorrhage with a ligature mark. Along with this there was complete infiltration of posterior esophagus. I gave an opinion that the deceased died of blunt injury sustained to neck. What I really meant was postmortem suspension. After that A scene visit was conducted & according to me a Person having the height of 11yr old child can't make access to the point of suspension. After that I was transferred to Medical college ,Trichur. & the case was closed ; by me answering a few questions put forward by the medico-legal adviser to kerala police at that time.
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pranams

Dear Friends,
As I informed you before, I had the opportunity to work with almost all senior forensic pathologists. Among them I am going to mention the name of two important persons, who paved the way for me or who put me in the right track& because of this what ever Ihave gained today, the credit goes to them. The two important persons are DR.V.K.JAYAPALAN & DR.P.Sivasankarapillai. I accept them as my mentor. Among these two the latter is more sincere & straightforward.& Iam obliged &more attached to him

Among the juniors I would consider DR.P.C.Ignatius & DR. Hitesh Sankar as my best friends ; because we know each other better

What ever opinion that Iam going to bringout is solely my opinion. When you read these you may differ with me or agree.
dr.n.rajaram