The Postmortem examination of bodies brought to mortuary can be conducted by medical officers or by Forensic experts. Usually this job is conducted by medical officers and in doubtful cases dead body is referred to Department of Forensic Medicine to conduct autopsy. Many times the medical officer fails to see wounds or injuries, they are not able to differentiate antemortem injury from Post-mortem injury, sometimes they are not able to differentiate hanging from strangulation, and in cases of multiple injuries, they are not able to draw opinions regarding the cause of death, mode of death and manner of death.
Most of the time, these cases remain unnoticed and unobjectionable but in few cases in which relatives of the deceased are not satisfied with Post-mortem findings and they demand Re-Post-mortem examination with the help of Forensic experts. Most of the time, the second autopsy is…
