Abstract :
Introduction: Hanging deaths is common in the day to day practice of Forensic expert. According to National Crime Bureau Report of 2016, in India, death due to hanging constitutes 46.2% of suicide.
Materials and Methods: A retrospective study of 205 cases of autopsies done for hanging cases in the mortuary of Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), a Tertiary Care Hospital in Imphal, Manipur were studied from the period between January 2008 to December 2019.
Results: This present study throws some light on the emerging trends that hanging is increasingly being adopted by a relatively younger age group between 21-30 years and males constituted 60% while females constituted 40%. Most of the victims were married 60.49% and were settled in urban areas. The place of occurrence was mostly indoors both for males (40.49%) as well as for females (32.68%). Soft ligature was the most commonly ligature material used by hanging victims.
Discussion: Findings of this study will help in highlighting the present scenario of hanging deaths and thus will help in solving many crimes by the law enforcing agencies.
Keyword :
Hanging, Ligature mark, Suicide.