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Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volume  14, Issue 2 (Special Issue), April-June 2021, Pages 216-222
 

Original Article

A Cross-sectional Record-based Study on Homicidal Death Pattern in Bareilly Region, Uttar Pradesh

Shivani Chauhan1, Rajeev Kumar2, Uday Pratap Singh3, Atul Tripathi4, Kapil Dev5, Atul Abhishek6

6M Sc Student, 2Associate Professor, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Galgotias University, Greater Noida 201310, Uttar Pradesh, India. 3Senior Scientist, 4Scientifc Ofcer, 5Deputy Director, Forensic Science Laboratory, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh 244001, India

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijfmp.0974.3383.14221.29

Abstract

Homicide is considered part of human behaviour. Signifcant number of unnatural deaths have been reported in which tools like axe, hammer, kitchen knife, etc., were used, followed by other assault weapons. Tey were used by attackers due to theireasy availability. Increasing rate of homicides worldwide reveals extreme violence, increased aggravation, lack of patience and mental disturbance in the culprits.  Te frst step toward developing interventions to reduce the impact of homicidal crimes and violence is to study homicidal trends in civil society as it varies from region to region. It is a record based cross sectional study in which all the 137 homicidal deaths out of 151 cases of Bareilly region reported at Division of Forensic Serology, Forensic Science Laboratory, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh from January 2019 - June 2019, were studied and analyzed. All the suicide cases with improper entry and those killed in police encounters were excluded. Various parameters like relationship of the victim to the accused, method of homicides, sex and gender of victims, category of lethal weapons, motive behind the homicide, place of incident etc., are considered. Tis research has been conducted with the objective to determine the most commonly used weapons for region. Moreover, parameters like determining the most vulnerable victims, age groups, place of incidence, gender, motive, accused-victim relationship, and cause of death behind the homicidal death were considered.