Citation

Rautji R, Kumar A. J. Ind. Acad. Forensic Med. 2014; 36(4): 437-438.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine)

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Abstract

A twenty-nine year old healthy male, software engineer by profession, had been married for the past three years. He had a strained relationship with his wife. On the fateful day he had an altercation with his wife in the evening on some issue. Subsequently, he came to the drawing room and started having liquor, while his wife was in the bedroom watching TV. After consuming few pegs of liquor he went to the kitchen and stabbed himself on his left thigh and came back to the drawing room and started having liquor again. After sometime his wife saw him lying unconscious in the drawing room. He was immediately taken to a nearby hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival. Cause of death was hemorrhagic shock due to femoral vessel injury.

Language: en

Keywords

Suicide; Femoral vessels; Haemorrhagic shock; Stab injury