Fabricated history conveyed by the victim to the forensic clinical practitioner, is it really malingering? Case report

Abstract

History provided by the patient is the single most important step for initialization of anything that follows ahead to provide relief physically mentally or medico-legally. At times, deliberately and intentionally malingering is done by providing false, fabricated and cooked up history to the forensic clinical practitioner just to mislead in order to achieve secondary gains and rarely primary gain. As fabricated history leads to the wrong opinion which also misleads the court in administration of justice. For final medicolegal opinion and true history, the forensic clinical practitioner asks the details history of the victim and repeats the history after an external physical examination and also perusal the radiological reports, clinical records, and information be given by the police. This is a case of 29-year-old male who attended with an alleged history of being physically assaulted with the rod and firearm weapon, and history have given that he was shot by gun by his cousin's brother, one bullet was at left leg and two bullets at right leg and beat by the rod. In this case report author explained how to rule out the fabricated history and to make the fair medicolegal opinion truly based on the facts shoe in the external examination, radiological examination, and clinical records. The authors advised all forensic clinical practitioner that be aware and never rely completely on history given by the victim.