Medico-legal autopsy by panel of Doctors present scenario.
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2004-07
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Medico-legal autopsy to ascertain the cause of death or other factors concerning death in unnatural or suspicious cases is in general conducted by one autopsy surgeon. But situations do arise when services
of more than one doctor in the form of panel are taken for conducting autopsies. Except administrative orders for panel formation for autopsy in dowry related or custodial deaths, there are no clearly defined
guidelines for constitution of the panel of autopsy surgeons in a large number of cases. Keeping in view the scientific, administrative, medical, legal and academic aspects of such autopsies, there is an urgent
need to formulate certain guidelines for constituting such panels for disbursement of justice in a better way in public interest and to counter the probability of harassment and exploitation of the autopsy surgeons
later on.
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Autopsy, Panel of doctors, Bride burning, Custodial death, Human rights, Model Protocol, Prosecutor, Anesthetic death, Torture, Exhumation
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Bhullar DS, Gorea RK, Aggarwal AD. Medico-legal autopsy by panel of Doctors present scenario. Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine. 2004 Jul; 26(3): 113-118.