Citation

Sundaragiri S, Shaik MN, Mittal C. Indian J. Forensic Med. Toxicol. 2018; 12(1): 248-252.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences. Deptartment of Forensic Medicine)

DOI

10.5958/0973-9130.2018.00049.X

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In India, the traditional custom of dowry not only encouraged parents to be gender selective and greedy husbands and in-laws to torture brides, it also curtailed women status drastically. This resulted in the increasing trends in dowry deaths. Deciding the nature of death as accidental, suicidal and homicidal mainly holds on the autopsy surgeon and the investigation officer. This paper discusses various medicolegal aspects of the investigation of burns in dowry deaths. © 2018, Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. All rights reserved.

Language: en

Keywords

crime; Accident; human; Homicide; homicide; suicide; Suicide; burn; female; accident; autopsy; cause of death; forensic medicine; marriage; medicolegal aspect; Bride burning; Article; DNA fingerprinting; Bride; Medicolegal aspects; Scene of the crime