In the scenario of alarming increasing cases of unnatural deaths due to strangulation and throttling the determination of cause of death has become difficult in some cases to forensic pathologist. But a case of attempted ligature strangulation which was safely resuscitated has been registered and studied. In this article an attempt has been made to discuss in detail about the various findings in relation to ligature strangulation concerned therein.

Keywords: Strangulation, ligature, homicide.