The first image striking many minds on hearing about custodial death is, torturing. This makes the custodial death related issue more sensitive, not only for custodian but also for doctors. Allegation of torture and any matter related to it comes toward the side of custodians. It thus is an obligation of an impartial authority to refute or accept such allegation with support of evidence. This support is provided by medico-legal autopsy conducted by an expert under Magistrate inquest (176 CrPC.). All such evidences need to be recorded, so that it can be produced in front of authority i.e. NHRC, and also for future references. Hence many challenges are faced at different level in a custodial death, for making the entire procedure impartial and smooth.
With this study an effort has been done to bring up few of such challenges encountered during a custodial death autopsy.
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2022: 6.012
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