Part of the Forensic Docket on Legal Desire Forensics — a conviction confirmed through final appeal, kept here as a method-of-crime record.
The facts
A married woman died of strangulation with a cable wire.
The postmortem doctor’s findings, confirmed by the Forensic Science Laboratory report, established death by asphyxia with ligature marks on the neck.
Her husband’s conviction was upheld.
Status: conviction upheld through final appeal.
Why this belongs in the Forensic Docket: Shows the postmortem and the FSL report operating together to establish both the cause and the mechanism of death, closing off any alternative explanation.
Case details
| Citation | [2014] 11 S.C.R. 587 |
| Case number | Criminal Appeal No. 1826/2010 |
| Court | Indian Supreme Court |
| Decided | 2014 |
| Module | MO Archive |
Read the full judgment (PDF), sourced from the Indian Supreme Court Judgments open dataset (AWS Open Data Registry, CC-BY-4.0).
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