Post-mortem
Post-mortem legal meaning, translation and judicial precedents.
Meaning & Judicial Interpretation: (اردو مفہوم اور قانونی تشریح)
Purpose of post-mortem examination was to ascertain the cause of death, number and locale of injuries, kind of weapon used in the crime and duration between injuries and death as well as death and post-mortem, however, medical evidence by itself did not raise finger towards any specific culprit.
Medico-legal or forensic post-mortem was performed on the requisition of a legal authority responsible for the investigation of sudden, suspicious, obscure, unnatural, litigious or criminal death
Legal authority was usually a police officer
Post-mortem was performed to know the cause of death
Consent of relatives was not necessary.
Delay in post-mortem examination is generally suggestive of a real possibility that time was consumed by police in procuring and planting eye-witnesses and in cooking up a story for prosecution before preparing police papers necessary for getting a post mortem examination of dead body conducted.
Post-mortem of female dead bodies to be conducted by Lady Doctors alone in the presence of female members of paramedical staff
Supreme Court issued directions in this regard.
"Post-mortem", Pakistan Law Portal, available at: https://paklawportal.com/words-terms-maxims/13995
Precedents & Case Laws citing "Post-mortem"
2017 P Cr
MIR GHANI, SHO POLICE STATION TANGIR, DISTRICT DIAMER — Petitioner Versus The STATE — Respondent
Court: Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court2017 P Cr
ZAFAR ALI — Applicant Versus Mst. MURADAN and another — Respondents
Court: Sindh (Sukkur Bench)2001 SCMR 1578
Dr. MUBASHAR AHMAD MIRZA‑‑‑Petitioner Versus PUNJAB PROVINCE through Secretary Health,
Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan1979 P Cr
FAZAL ELAH1 AND 2 OTHERS-Petitioners Versus THE STATE AND ANOTHER-Respondents'
Court: LahoreP L D 1978 Lahore 1259
The STATE- Petitioner Versus Ch. ALTAF HUSSAIN MAGISTRATE IST CLASS, GUJRAT AHD 2 OTHERS-Respondents
Court: - Ss. 174 & 176 read with Ss. 369 & 439-Word "inquest" in Ss. 174 & 176-Interpretation-Holding of inquest and exercise of power by Magistrate for disinterment of body-Held, judicial functions-Order passed in exercise of such powers also a judicial function and, therefore, revisable-Magistrate having power to direct post mortem examination can also direct not to hold such examination. Police as well as Magistrate can conduct investigation including inquest more than once in same case if circumstances so justify-Exercise of same powers by Magistrate a second time-Held, would not be a review of his earlier judgment-Purpose behind statutory duty of Police Officer : to keep judicial functionaries informed about important incidents.--Revision-Review-Words and phrases.1998 P Cr
AMIR KHAN — Petitioner Versus THE DISTRICT MAGISTRATE, CHAKWAL and 2 others — Respondents
Court: Lahore1989 P Cr
Court: Karachi
2019 S C M R 1068
MUHAMMAD RAFIQUE alias FEEQA — Appellant Versus The STATE — Respondent
Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan2009 SCMR 1142
IFTIKHAR AHMED and another — Appellants Versus THE STATE and others — Respondents
Court: Supreme Court of PakistanP L D 1970 Lahore 735
SHERA AND 4 OTHERS‑ — Convict — ‑Appellants Versus THE STATE‑ — Respondent
Court: