Incidence of homicidal deaths with the distribution of age, gender and cause of death at a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in South India Sundaragiri Suraj1, Sathyanarayana Pramod Kumar Kistigari2, Koppada Vijaya Durga3 1Senior Resident, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Puducherry, India 2Assistant Professor, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, MediCiti Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, Telangana, India 3Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Apollo Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Chittor, Andhra Pradesh, India Online published on 13 December, 2018. Abstract The present prospective study aims to establish the incidence of homicidal deaths with the distribution of age, gender and cause of death among cases which were subjected to post-mortem examination in a tertiary care teaching hospital in South India for a period of two years. The study revealed that among 10137 autopsies conducted in the study period, homicidal deaths accounted for 211 (2.08%) cases. Among the study population, the majority of the victims were aged between 21–30 years (35.55%). Males comprised the majority of victims as compared to females in the ratio 2.15: 1. Head injury alone was cause for 41.23% of homicidal deaths. Top Keywords Homicidal deaths, Cause of death, Age, Gender. Top |