Blood and Desire: A Case of Preplanned Murder, following Torture by Spouse

Abstract

As one of the oldest civilizations of the world, India has experienced several seismic changes in culture, migration and invasion in which  violence has played an integral part which has also brought changes in patterns of homicide and responses to it. Attempts to camouflage  1the homicidal incidents is not an unknown phenomenon, which neither the science nor the law is always successful in unearthing and  2 when the element of premeditation is involved, the crime becomes much more heinous. Requisition for conducting post-mortem  examination of a 42-year-old male was brought to Kolkata Police Morgue on 05/11/2022, being referred from a district hospital. External  examination showed multiple injuries over the face, extremities and external genitalia with numerous nail scratch abrasions over the  anterior aspect of the neck. Internally all visceral organs were congested.