Sachin Kumar Meena

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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over eight hundred thousand people commit suicide every year all over the world. In India, every year >1 lakh people commit suicide and it accounts for 17.5% of all suicidal deaths in the world. The study was carried out in Dept. of Forensic Medicine Toxicology of Government medical college, Kota over a period of three years between Jan. 2015 to Dec. 2017. There were 1033 suicidal deaths out of 3217 unnatural deaths during study period. The manners of committing suicidal deaths were burns 14.81%, poisoning 49.17 % drowning 7.16 % and hanging 28.86% etc. The males 746 outnumbered the females. More married persons committed the suicide. Study also reveals that age group 21-30 includes most suicides. If we compare the reasons of suicides it is observed that family problems were the most common cause of suicides. Keywords: Suicidal deaths, Family problems, Black mailing.

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In India large range of sex related crimes take place which are sexual assault, rape, sexual abuse of children and trafficking of women for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Sexual assault includes all form of non-consensual contact with a sexual purpose ranging from eve teasing to molestation to rape. Medical examination of the victim of sexual assault always play very important role in investigation of such cases. Most affected age group of victims was 11 to 20 years of age accounting 46.9% followed by 21 to 30 years of age accounting 34.6%. In about 98% cases the accused were known to the victims and in about 80% cases significant relationship was present between the accused and victim. 34% cases reported for medical examination within 3 days and 47.6% reported after one week of the incident. Four cases were present with pregnancy after sexual assault and belong to 15- 18 years of age and low educational strata. Keywords: Sexual assault, Rape, Medical examination, Pregnancy.

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Trauma to abdomen and its complication causes mortality to any age groups. The solid organ such as spleen, liver kidney, pancreas etc are the most vulnerable, while the hollow viscera like stomach, Intestines and bladder are likely to be involved less. The outstanding features of injury to solid organ are hemorrhage and shock while shock follows with development of peritonitis is occurred in case of injury to hollow visceral organs. This study describes the frequency and pattern of blunt abdominal trauma which is amongst the common cause of mortality among any age group. Aim of this study to analyze the pattern of injury, find out the cause of death with preventive measures. The present study was undertaken on 184 victims died due to blunt trauma to abdomen which were autopsied at GMC Kota mortuary during 2017 to 2018. This study shows that number of deaths due to blunt trauma to abdomen are more in males with age groups of 21 30 years. Major causes for these are road traffic accident. Most number of deaths occurs within 1-6 hours of injuries. Hemorrhagic shock is the main cause of death. Keywords: Blunt abdominal trauma, Intraabdominal injuries, Hemorrhagic shock.

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