Citation

Behera C, Karthik K, Singh H, Deepak P, Jhamad AR, Bhardwaj D. Med. Leg. J. 2014; 82(1): 29-31.

Affiliation

Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Medico-Legal Society, Publisher SAGE Publications)

DOI

10.1177/0025817213508676

PMID

24619843

Abstract

Suicide pacts are uncommon and mainly committed by male-female pairs in a consortial relationship. The victims frequently choose methods such as hanging, poisoning, using a firearm, etc; however, a case of a suicide pact by drowning is rare in forensic literature. We report a case where a male and a female, both young adults, in a relationship of adopted "brother of convenience" were found drowned in a river. The victims were bound together at their wrists which helped with our conclusion this was a suicide pact. The medico-legal importance of wrist binding in drowning cases is also discussed in this article.

Language: en