This incident happened in the year 2001. A man of age 30-35 was shot by the gun man of superintendant of police on one evening. The former was running a video cassette shop in Trichur district & both of them knew each other well. The deceased sustained a wound of entry over the right side of chin & it made an exit over the back of neck. He was hospitalised & the surgeon misinterpreted the entry to exit & vice versa. He failed to notice the abrasion collar in the wound of entry. The direction of the wound was backwards & downwards through the white matter of brain. The occipital bone was fractured & fragmented. No powder tattooing was there, The history put forward by the police is that the deceased was trying to examine the revolver brought by the accused & while the deceased was examining the gun the accused snatched it from him & this resulted in the firing. Taking into consideration of the absence of tattooing I strongly suspects whether this theory holds good. Since this was a treated case, I was not able to make out any smudging. No flame effect was there. The police were not able to recover the exit bullet; the motive behind the firing is still unknown, the trail of the case is not started yet.