Postmortem Examination

Postmortem examination of the exhumed remains of a stillborn baby will be carried out Monday to ascertain the exact cause of death with the family alleging that some Rajasthan Police personnel assaulted a pregnant woman, who is the wife of an accused

The body of a Russian engineer who died on a cargo ship off the Odisha coast was sent for postmortem examination on Wednesday, police said.

The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered a second postmortem examination on the body of a man who died in judicial custody, on a prayer by his brother claiming that he was tortured in a correctional home in Purba Medinipur district where he was lodged.

One key to a longer life could be a quieter brain without too much neural activity, according to a new study that examined postmortem brain tissue from extremely long-lived people for clues about what made them different from people who died in their 60s and 70s.

A student was found murdered today in the washroom of a school in Gujarat's Vadodara -- a chilling reminder of last year's murder of a seven-year-old at a school in Gurgaon near Delhi. The 14-year-old boy was a student of Class 9. His body, bearing multiple knife wounds, was found in the school's washroom around mid-day.

A postmortem examination has failed to establish that a woman prisoner who was beaten to death in Mumbai's Byculla jail last week, was also violated with a wooden stick. The report, police said, maintains that Manjula Sheyte sustained fatal injuries on her skull and other parts of the body.

The attempt to rescue 6-year-old Kaveri who fell into a borewell in north Karnataka on Saturday, ended with the recovery of her body late on Monday night. A postmortem examination has been conducted and results are awaited. But Ravikante Gowda, a senior police officer of Belgavi, told NDTV that initial reports indicate that the child died of asphyx...

A village in Kerala's Palakkad district got a huge shock when 9-year-old girl was found hanging in her home last week. A postmortem examination revealed that she had been sexually abused. Exactly 52 days ago, her elder sister, a 14-year-old, was seen hanging at the same spot. The police said she had been sexually abused as well. The investigation i...

Minhaz Ansari, the man arrested in Jharkhand over WhatsApp messages on beef that the police said were inflammatory, had died in custody due to beating and not because of encephalitis, a postmortem examination has concluded.

The Centre wants the Law Commission to study regulations related to postmortem examination which have become outdated and come up with a comprehensive report suggesting necessary amendments.

Postmortem examination of the exhumed remains of a stillborn baby will be carried out Monday to ascertain the exact cause of death with the family alleging that some Rajasthan Police personnel assaulted a pregnant woman, who is the wife of an accused

The body of a Russian engineer who died on a cargo ship off the Odisha coast was sent for postmortem examination on Wednesday, police said.

The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered a second postmortem examination on the body of a man who died in judicial custody, on a prayer by his brother claiming that he was tortured in a correctional home in Purba Medinipur district where he was lodged.

One key to a longer life could be a quieter brain without too much neural activity, according to a new study that examined postmortem brain tissue from extremely long-lived people for clues about what made them different from people who died in their 60s and 70s.

A student was found murdered today in the washroom of a school in Gujarat's Vadodara -- a chilling reminder of last year's murder of a seven-year-old at a school in Gurgaon near Delhi. The 14-year-old boy was a student of Class 9. His body, bearing multiple knife wounds, was found in the school's washroom around mid-day.

A postmortem examination has failed to establish that a woman prisoner who was beaten to death in Mumbai's Byculla jail last week, was also violated with a wooden stick. The report, police said, maintains that Manjula Sheyte sustained fatal injuries on her skull and other parts of the body.

The attempt to rescue 6-year-old Kaveri who fell into a borewell in north Karnataka on Saturday, ended with the recovery of her body late on Monday night. A postmortem examination has been conducted and results are awaited. But Ravikante Gowda, a senior police officer of Belgavi, told NDTV that initial reports indicate that the child died of asphyx...

A village in Kerala's Palakkad district got a huge shock when 9-year-old girl was found hanging in her home last week. A postmortem examination revealed that she had been sexually abused. Exactly 52 days ago, her elder sister, a 14-year-old, was seen hanging at the same spot. The police said she had been sexually abused as well. The investigation i...

Minhaz Ansari, the man arrested in Jharkhand over WhatsApp messages on beef that the police said were inflammatory, had died in custody due to beating and not because of encephalitis, a postmortem examination has concluded.

The Centre wants the Law Commission to study regulations related to postmortem examination which have become outdated and come up with a comprehensive report suggesting necessary amendments.