Unveiling the Secrets of the Grave: The Power and Process of Exhumation in Modern Medicine

Exhumation:

                     Exhumation may be defined as the authorized digging out of an already buried dead body from the grave for autopsy.

Causes of Exhumation:

         First autopsy & Second autopsy

PROCEDURE OF EXHUMATION:

1. A written order from a first-class magistrate.
2. Done in daylight, particularly in the morning
3. The magistrate and doctor should be present at the site and should stay in place opposite the airflow.
4. The grave should be identified by both the relatives of the deceased and the person responsible for the graveyard.
5. Then the grave should be curtained by polyethylene cloth.
6. Soil from above, below, and around the coffin should be preserved in a glass jar.
7. Then see the position and condition of the dead body within the grave and take a photograph.
8. The body is carefully shifted onto a plank or sheet, and by covering it with this sheet, it should be sent to the morgue. A magisterial inquest is necessary here.
9. In a second autopsy, the examination should be conducted by a medical board.

INDICATION OF EXHUMATION:

1. For the second autopsy
2. Burial without autopsy
3. Partial identification
4. The following issue can be determined long after death:
5. Metallic poisoning
6. Fractured Bone.
7. The bullet traverses the bone
8. Head injury
9. Old bloodstain on the bone
10. Old bloodstain
11. If saponified, all types of injury could be detected.