IPC it defines various offences and their punishments admissible under court of law

CPC :
It defines the Procedure of investigations and trial of offences
Inquest:
An inquest is an enquiry into the cause of death in cases of sudden, suspicious, and unnatural deaths
Court:

Evidence:
Under sec 3 of Indian evidence act , evidence as is defined as what a court of justice is permitted by law
to take into consideration for making clean Or ascertaining the truth of the fact is point in issue

Dying declaration:
It is a statement, verbal or written, made by a person who is dying as a result of some unlawful act ,
relating to the cause of his death or any of the circumstances of the transactions that resulted in his
death

Dying deposition:
It is a statement made by a dying person under oath and recorded by in a magistrate presence of the
accused or his lawyer, who is allowed to cross examine the person

Witness: a witness is a person who gives evidence in the court of law under oath
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Hostile witness:
Witness who deliberately gives false evidences in the court of law either by concealing a part or whole of
the truth or making totally false statement , which he knows be to false or not true and thereby
contradicts his previous statements made before the same count or in a previous judicial proceeding

Offences:
Offence is an act of commissions or omission made punishable by any law

Conduct money:
It is the money offered to witness in a civil case, at the time of serving the summon, to meet the
expenses for attending the court.
Perjury:
Ot means wilfully giving false evidence in a court of law under oath . A witness who deliberately conceals
a part of truth or the makes a statement, which he knows or believes to to be false or not true is liable to
be prosecuted for perjury.

Medical ethics:
It deals with the moral principles, which should guide members of the medical profession in their dealing
with each other, their patients and the state

Medical etiquette:
It deals with the conventional law of country observed between members of the medical profession.

Professional misconduct:
Something done by a doctor during professional medical practice, which is considered as disgraceful
and dishonorable by his or her professional brethren of good repute.,

Consent:
Voluntary agreement, compliance or permission. Two or more person are said to be in consent when
they gree upon the same thing in the same sense.

Negligence:
Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those consideration '
which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs would do ' or doing something, which a
reasonable and prudent man would not do.
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Medical negligence:
It is defined as want of reasonable care and skill or wilful negligence on the part of the medical
practitioner while treating a patient resulting in bodily injury, ill health, death.

Fingerprints :
Fingerprints are impressions of patterns formed by the papillary or epidermal ridges of the finger tips.

Superimposition:
It is the technique applied to determine whether the skull is of that of the person in the photograph.
Scar:
It is the result of a repair mechanism to an injury involving the dermis of the skin.

Tattoo mark:
Designs made by multiple small puncture wounds in the skin through needles or similar penetrating tools
dipped in a colouring dye.

Death:
It is the complete and reversible stoppage of the tripod of life i.e. Circulation, respiration , and brain
function .

Brain death:
It is the irreversible end of all brain functions, including involuntary activity necessary to sustain life, due
to total necrosis of the cerebral neurons following stoppage of brain oxygenation.

Stupor:
The patient appears to be asleep and shows little or no spontaneous activity. Responding only to
vigorous stimulation and then lapsing back to somnolence.

Suspended animation:
In this condition, signs of life are not found as the functions are interrupted for sometime or reduced to
minimum.

Coma:
It is the stage of unconsciousness resembling deep sleep and involves the stoppage of the action of
brain.

Autopsy:
Scientific examination of the body after death.

Injury:
(legal)
According to sec 44 IPC , any harm whatever illegally caused to any person, in body, mind, reputation,
or property.
( medical)
Any damage to any part of the body due to application of mechanical force.

Wound:
(Medical)
Break of the continuity of the tissues, created by external mechanical force.
(Legal),
Breach of the full thickness of the skin which excludes abrasions, bruises, internal injuries and fractures

Abrasion:
Simplest form of mechanical injury on a portion of the body surface involving epidermis or papillary
dermis, or body lining epithelium caused by rubbing due to blunt force impact.

Contusion /bruise:
Escape of blood from ruptured small vessels in to the surrounding tissue due to blunt force impact

Laceration:
Type of mechanical injury where there is full thickness tearing of skin or tissue due to stretching and
crushing by blunt force impact.

Incised wound:
It is defined as a clean cut of the full thickness of skin on the tissue under the pressure of a sharp edged
weapon like knife, dagger etc.

Defense wound:
It is usually sustained when a victim places his hand often his palms, can other body part in harm's way
to prevent or minimise the impact of a blow or slashing by a sharp weapon.

Chop wound:
Type of incised wound, which has clean cut edges, but an abraded margin due to invasion and friction
against the sides of the wide blade on insertion with a fairly Sharp moderately heavy weapon like axe ,
kukri .

Stab/puncture wound:,
These injuries are caused by separation of the body tissues like skin and soft tissues under pressure of
sharp or a blunt pointed object, the greatest dimension being its depth.

Firearm:
A device, which propels a projectile by the force of the hot gases produced by combustion of explosive
material in a closed chamber.

Forensic ballistics:
Science dealing with the probe of firearms, ammunition and the troubles arising from their use.

Gun ballistics :
It is the work on projective from the time of shooting to the time of impact with the target.

Riffing:
Rifling is longitudinal grooves alternating with ridges running spirally along the inner side of the barrel.

Bore / caliber:,
Distance between two opposite lands of the rifling.,

Scald:
Type ff burn injury caused by application of hot liquid or gases, i.e. moist heat

Dangerous weapon:,
Section 324 and 326 IPC described dangerous weapon as any instrument used for shooting, stabbing,
or cutting or any instrument which when used, is likely to cause death.

Hurt:
Sec 319 IPC describes, whoever causes bodily pain, diseases or infirmity to any person is said to cause
just.

Hanging:
Hanging is a form of death where a body is suspended by a ligature around the neck and the force of
constriction in the weight of the body.
Strangulation:
Strangulation is a form of death where there is constriction of the neck, by a ligature or any other
material without suspension of the body.

Suffocation:.
Is a form of death resulting from exclusion of atmospheric air from the lungs without constrictions of the
neck.

drowning;
Is a form of death in which atmospheric air is prevented from entering the respirating passage due to
submission in a fluid medium.

Impotence:
Inability of a man to achieve and maintain an election sufficient for mutually satisfactory intercourse with
his partner.

Frigidity:
It is a psychological fault with the female having an abnormal antipathy to sexual intercourse.

Sterility:
State of being unable to produce offspring where a women is unable to conceive or a men is , unable to
impregnate.

Artificial insemination:
It is the artificial deposition of semen in the cervix, vagina or uterus of G women in an attempt to
impregnate the women.

Pregnancy:
It is a physiological state in the female where the conceives a developing product of concept
In her womb until birth of a child.

Delivery:
Complete evacuation of a viable foetus , and other products of conception from uterus to external
environment.
Abortion:
Expulsion of the products of conception before the age of viability i.e. 28 weeks of pregnancy.

Infanticide:
Unlawful destruction of an infant less than1 year.

Stillborn:
A still born child is one born after 28 weeks of pregnancy and which didnot at any time after being
completely expelled , breathe or show any sign life.

Dead born
One who died in uteri and may show either sign of rigor mortis at delivery or signs of maceration or
mummification:.

Voyeurism : 354 IPC

A man who watches or captures the image of a women engaging in a private act in circumstances
where she would usually have the exception of not being watched either by the perpetrator or by any the
person at the behest of the perpetrator or disseminate such image

Rape: 375 IPC

A person is said to commit rape if he:
A. Penetrates his penis to any extent, into the vagina, mouth, urethra or anus of another person or makes
the pressin to do so with him of any other person; or
B. Inserts, to any extent any object or a part of body, not being the penis , into the vagina, urethra or
anus of another person or makes the person to do so with him of any other person; or
C. Manipulates any part of the body of another person so as to cause penetration into the vagina,
urethra or anus of another person or makes the person to do so with him of any other person; or
D. Applies his mouth to the penis, vagina, anus or urethra of another person or makes the person to do
so with him of any other person;
Under following circumstances
1. Against her will
2. Without her consent
3. With her consent when consent obtained by putting her or any person in whom she is interested in
death or of hurt.
4- with her consent when at the time of giving such consent, by reason of unsoundness of mind or
intoxication or stupefying
5. With her consent when the, man knows that he is not her husband and that she believes that he is
another man to whom she is lawfully married.
6. With or without consent when she is under 18 years of age. .
7. When she is unable to communicate consent.

IPC Sec 84:

Nothing is an offence which is done by a person who at the time of doing it, by reason of unsoundness
of mind is incapable of knowing the nature of the act, or that he is doing what is either wrong or contrary
to the law

Torture:
Act to inflict intense physical, psychological, emotional pain in order to punish, coerce or afford sadistic
pleasures.

Toxicology:
Branch of medical science dealing with properties, action, toxicity , lethal dose, estimation of and
treatment of poisoning. ( patlet)

Poison:
Any substances which when introduced into the living body by any route or comes in contact with the
body produces ill health disease or death.

Vitriolage: 326 (a) IPC

Throwing of acid or other corrosive substances on another person is known as vitriolage. '