An Autopsy Study on Death Due to Suspected Homicide

Violence is a significant health problem in our society and homicide is one of the severest forms in different violent acts. Theworld health organization (WHO) defines homicide as death caused by intentionally inflicted injuries from another person.The aim of this study is to analysis the profile of victims of suspected homicide along with proposing a relation with mode ofdeath. After getting Ethical Clearance (Memo No. 290 dated 11/02/2021 signed by Member Secretary of Institutional EthicsCommittee of RGK, Kolkata, WB) present study was carried out over 42 cases of suspected homicide from 1st Jan 2021 to30th June 2022, over a period of 18 months at mortuary under department of FMT of RGK Govt. Appropriate consent andauthorized permission for conducting the study in the mortuary over suspected homicide subjects was taken from HOD ofDept of FMT of RGK, Kolkata, WB(Institutional Authority). Collected data were presented using SPSS for statistical analysis.Study showed ratio of male & female victims was 1.7:1. Age group of (30-44) years was the commonest among the victims.Maximum of the victims were killed by hard blunt weapon (30%) mostly at their residence (71%) due to family dispute (44%).Head injury (38%) was the commonest cause of death. Majority of cases family members (42%) were involved asacquaintances.