Death of a serving soldier by an unusual weapon – A case report

According to the witnesses, crime scene and inquest report, deceased is a 30 years old serving male soldier who was riding bike, accidentally got cut through neck by Chinese Manja and suddenly collapsed near langerhouse flyover at around 18:25 PM and was brought dead to Military Hospital, Golconda at 18;40 PM. The corpse of the deceased was brought to Mortuary, Osmania General Hospital at 09;00 PM on 13/01/2024 by the Investigation Officer and requested for postmortem examination under section 174 Criminal Procedure Code. The postmortem findings were an antemortem horizontally cut throat injury at the level of thyroid cartilage in the front of neck. The structures underlying are exposed with transection of external carotid arteries and internal jugular veins on both sides of neck and trachea is transected at the level of 4 cartilaginous ring. Margins are clean cut with inverted edges, tapering is seen on left side with blunt end towards right, with meticulous crime scene investigation and post mortem examination and interpretation of the findings cause of death was given as “”