MEDICO-LEGAL ASPECT OF GRIEVOUS HURT – A REVIEW STUDY
*Dr. Yuvraj Kaushik and Dr. Deepti Patel
ABSTRACT
In Medico-legal cases there are different types of injury cases come in the hospital. The doctor inform to police or police come with accused or victims for making injury report. The injury may be suicidal or accidental or homicidal or fabricated etc. The registered medical practitioner treat the patient carefully and examine to opine regarding injury and fill the injury report form. The RMP is opining whether it is simple injury or grievous injury. Sec. 320 IPC defines the grievous hurt, grievous hurt is hurt of a more serious in nature. There are 8 clauses in the definition of grievous hurt. Simple injury or hurt is an injury which is neither extensive nor serious. On the bases of only medico-legal reports the facts comes out and play a very important role to prove or disprove any injury related case. This article is mainly based on the grievous hurt & it’s medico legal aspect.
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