Citation

Agrawal A, Ninave S, Srivastava T, Sunkara A, Agrawal S. J. Forensic Leg. Med. 2009; 16(6): 350-351.

Affiliation

Clinical and Administrative Head, Division of Neurosurgery, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Sawangi, Meghe, Wardha 442005, Maharashtra, India. dramitagrawal@gmail.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jflm.2009.01.004

PMID

19573848

Abstract

Chunni (a piece of cloth worn around the neck by many Indian women) is a well recognized accidental ligature around the neck. We report a rare case of accidental strangulation with chunni where the patient was pillion rider on bicycle; in spite of very common of use of bicycle to best our knowledge this kind of injury has not been reported previously.

Language: en