In a country where 130,000 deaths occur annually due to road traffic accidents and 53% women suffer from domestic violence leading to grave injuries, medical practitioners, and clinical institutions must have a basic checklist for medico legal cases (MLC). The very basic question is what are medico legal cases? What does the law say about handling an MLC? What should be the format of a medico legal report? There is a common myth that only the doctors working in the government hospitals would be involved with such cases.
However, this idea has been dispelled by the recent decisions of the Supreme Court that issued the directive for handling MLCs even in private medical institutions. This article discusses some of the common practical issues involved in these cases. What comes under medico legal case? All injury cases, circumstances of which suggests commission of an offence by someone.…
