Interpretation Of Injuries

Abstract

Penetrating injuries of the body are most commonly the result of injury/wounds and are often associated with a range of potentially life threatening injuries. In every physical assault, no matter it led to death or not, the attacker had produced/left different types of marks in the victim's body that could be helpful to reconstruct the crime scene and guide to determine the cause of death. In the present study, we have demonstrated some examples of injuries/wounds found of the victim's body with illustrative photos. These provide a proper and useful data for the forensic crime scene investigators.

INTRODUCTION

An injury is define as any harm, whatever illegally caused to any person in body, mind, reputation or property as per Indian Panel Code (Sec. 44). In forensic science, the injuries/wounds are produced by physical violence, which break of the natural continuity of any of the tissues of the living body [1]. Different types of injuries are summarized in