Citation

Pydi HS, Umamaheswara Rao P. J. Ind. Acad. Forensic Med. 2016; 38(1): 39-41.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine)

DOI

10.5958/0974-0848.2016.00010.5

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Homicide is killing of a person by another. With ever increasing knowledge availability to people, fear of conviction and evolving technologies, people are trying to showcase the crime in other way. Here we studied the various methods employed by the accused, to showcase the murdered person in a way other than the actual method of murder. A total of eight such cases were found during the study period. 1) wife was stabbed to death, body dismembered at joints and disposed at various garbage bins, 2) thief was throttled to death and thrown over road to showcase as RTA, 3) Member of a robbery gang was hanged, cuts were made over is wrist to showcase as suicide, 4) old woman was throttled to death and thrown into big drainage to show as accidental drowning, 5) worker was throttled to death and left long in an isolated place till decomposition, 6) a person was beaten to death over neck and thrown over road to show as an RTA, 7) A person was beaten to death over head and thrown in shallow drain to show as accidental drowning, 8) a woman was smothered to death and burnt to show as suicidal burns.

Language: en

Keywords

Post-mortem examination; Crime scene visit; Methods of masquerading; Murder cases