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.
dr. n.rajaram