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Dead Man Returns From Funeral Pyre: Conflagrated Remains Speak Out Murder-A Case Report

2018; Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine; Volume: 40; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5958/0974-0848.2018.00042.8

0974-0848

Pankaj Keshwani, Luv Sharma, Vinod Kumar, S.K. Dhattarwal,

Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes

Murder, though it has no tongue, will speak with the most miraculous organ. Disposal of dead bodies, for the purpose of destroying evidence of crime, has been an age old practice. Time and again, killers have come up with innovative ideas to evade conviction. The present case is of a man, slaughtered by his own kin and rushed to the cremation grounds. Following an anonymous tip, the police found the dead body burning on a pyre, salvaged what was left and then a careful and through post-mortem examination ascertained the corpus delecti. Barely any finding could be made out on the body but for that one homicidal injury which sealed the fate of the criminals.