TY - JOUR PY - 2016// TI - Double hanging with single ligature: an unusual method in suicide pact JO - Journal of forensic sciences A1 - Behera, Chittaranjan A1 - Rautji, Ravi A1 - Kumar, Rajesh A1 - Pooniya, Shashank A1 - Sharma, Piyush A1 - Gupta, Sudhir Kumar SP - 265 EP - 266 VL - 62 IS - 1 N2 - A married casual labor couple was found hanging in their makeshift bedroom with each end of a single chunni (a cloth worn around the neck by Indian women) spread across an iron bar below the roof. They left their two children, daughter, and son of 4 and 3 yrs age, respectively, with their grandmother living separately nearby, and went to attend cremation of one of their relatives. They returned late in the evening and found hanging in their bedroom next morning by neighbors.

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