Exhumation

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Exhumation

• Presented by-
• Manish Dwivedi
• Roll No.31

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DEFINITION

• Exhumation means the lawful disinterment or
• digging out a body, which
• has already been buried ,from a grave.

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OBJECTIVES

• 1-for purposes of identification
• 2-to determine the cause of death , when foul
  play is suspected.
• e.g. homicide,disputed case of death or
  poisoning ,exhumation post-mortem is done to
  know cause , manner nature of death
• 3-may also be required to recover some paper or
  documents or other evidential material buried
  with dead body

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RULES

• Done under written order of district magistrate
• Exhumed by police in presence revenue officer
  a medical officer
• In India ,no time limit is fixed

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IDENTIFICATION OPENING THE GRAVE

• Grave identified by warden of cemetery from the
  records , exact site by friends relatives who
  have been present at the time of burial
• Now the grave is dug up carefully to avoid damage
  to the coffin its content
• In suspected case of mineral poisoning about 500
  gram of sample of earth in actual contact with
  coffin should be collected preserved in a dry
  clean glass bottle for chemical analysis.
• Control samples at some distance from the coffin
  should be taken

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IDENTIFICATION OF THE COFFIN BODY

• Now the coffin should be raised from the grave
  identified by original undertaker who made it
  as many persons possible.
• An attempt is then made to identify the body by
  any person who was present when body was placed
  in the coffin.
• If a body is buried illegally it is invariably in
  a shallow grave liable to greater decomposition
  depending on weather.

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EXAMINATION

• -if interment has been recent then post mortem is
  carried in usual manner
• In case of bodies which has been underground for
  a sufficiently long time undergone
  putrefaction, an attempt should be made to
  determine
• - sex
• - stature
• - marks of identification

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• Hairs found on body should be preserved in a
  dry clean glass bottle for subsequent
  identification chemical analysis.
• A search should also be made for recent or old
  injuries such as fractures
• All the cavities should be examined as many
  viscera as can be obtained , should be preserved
• In case of suspected mineral poisoning such as
  arsenic antimony hairs, nails long bone
  should be preserved.
• Sample then forwarded duly labeled sealed to
  forensic science laboratory.

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TIME FOR EXHUMATION

• In India England no time limit is fixed for
  disinterment of body
• In France period is limited to 10 years in
• Germany 30 years.

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CASE REPORT

• Exhum_040328_eng_A4.pdf

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