A DESCRIPTIVE CROSS-SECTIONAL RESEARCH ON HOMICIDAL DEATH PATTERN ON AUTOPSY IN THE SETTING OF PAKISTAN SPECIALLY CONCERNED WITH THE ILLEGAL FIRE-ARM POSSESSION AND THEIR FREQUENT USE CAUSING HOMICIDAL DEATHS

Background: To kill someone by another person is known as homicide. Our research was aimed at the identification of cause and pattern of death on the issue of homicide specifically on autopsy in Pakistan. Material & Methods: Research is a descriptive cross-sections research that was carried out in the time of Jan, 2015 to Mar, 2017. 2025 cases of homicide (dead bodies) were studied in our research. We used a proforma for data collection in the Mayo Hospital, Lahore (Department of Forensic Medicine). Ethical permission was taken before the start of the research. The cause of death was studies with the help of internal and external examination, viscera analysis and histopathological assessment. Partially or advanced decomposed including skeletonized dead bodies observed with no external and internal injuries adequate to cause death & toxicological and histological reports that failed to reveal any ambiguous outcome were made a part of the research. Results: We performed autopsies of (2025 dead bodies), all the dead bodies were homicidal cases. The male to female ratio was such as 1375 male (67.24%) and 670 females (32.76%) were made a part of the research. The commonly observed cause the injury caused by the fire-arm causing 1230 deaths (60.14%), second common most injury was the injury of blunt weapon 367 cases (17.94%). Conclusion: Out set-up observed most of the cases of fire-arm causing homicide. Illegal possession of fire-arms is to monitored strictly and policies should be implemented to disco