title: Homicidal hanging.
abstract: Homicide by hanging is an extremely rare incident [1]. Very few cases have been reported in which a person is rendered senseless and then hanged to simulate suicidal death; though there are a lot of cases in wherein a homicide victim has been hung later. We report a case of homicidal hanging of a young Sikh individual found hanging in a well. It became evident from the results of forensic autopsy that the victim had first been given alcohol mixed with pesticides and then hanged by his turban from a well. The rare combination of lynching (homicidal hanging) and use of organo-phosporous pesticide poisoning as a means of homicide are discussed in this paper.
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical Enclave, Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India. drluvksharma@gmail.com
authors.forename: Luv
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Vijay P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Khanagwal
authors.forename: Pramod K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Paliwal
mesh_terms: D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000473:pathology*; D001237:Asphyxia; D001344:Autopsy; D049429:Forensic Pathology; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D062025:Organophosphate Poisoning