Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i2.7908
R. Singh, K. Pramod
Introduction: Killing of people practicing or suspected of practicing black magic which is also known as “witch-hunting” is not uncommon in India. People believe that any tragedy or misfortune that may befall them like, damaged crops, epidemics, sudden and unexplained deaths of children is the work of evil ‘witches’. We report a case where a person was murdered due to the belief that he was practicing black magic or witchcraft. Case report: A dead body of a 60-year-old male was brought by the police for autopsy to a tertiary care center. It was alleged that he was assaulted by a sharp weapon. The alleged assailant was the neighbor of the deceased who believed that the deceased used black magic to cause the death of his four year old child a few months before. Autopsy revealed multiple incised wounds mainly on the back of the head, with compound fracture of occipital bone leading to intracranial and intracerebral bleeding. Conclusion: This case illustrates a homicide caused by superstition as a motive. Multiple sharp blows to the head, proves adequate intention and knowledge by the accused to kill. As this kind of belief or superstition about black magic is more prevalent in less educated persons, the need arises to raise awareness about witchcraft and other superstitious activities. We propose that it can be included as a subject in schools to change the beliefs of society on superstition and related activities.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i2.7900
J. M. Y. K. Jayasinghe, J. Jayasinghe, W. S. Perera, P. Paranitharan
{"title":"Medical ethics during COVID-19 pandemic: An experience with death investigation","authors":"J. M. Y. K. Jayasinghe, J. Jayasinghe, W. S. Perera, P. Paranitharan","doi":"10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i2.7900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i2.7900","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53258,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Forensic Medicine Science Law","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79871202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i2.7901
A. P. Rathnayake
{"title":"Beneficence on unborn patients treated in wombs vs. autonomy of pregnant women: A legal standpoint","authors":"A. P. Rathnayake","doi":"10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i2.7901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i2.7901","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53258,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Forensic Medicine Science Law","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89587891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i2.7902
A. P. Rathnayake
{"title":"‘Artificial Wombs’ replacing medical termination of pregnancy and rights: A point of view","authors":"A. P. Rathnayake","doi":"10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i2.7902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i2.7902","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53258,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Forensic Medicine Science Law","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82398234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i2.7892
Y. Tyagi, M. S. Meena, J. Kumar, S. Mittal, R. Soni
{"title":"A comparative study of suicidal deaths during the pre-COVID and COVID periods","authors":"Y. Tyagi, M. S. Meena, J. Kumar, S. Mittal, R. Soni","doi":"10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i2.7892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i2.7892","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53258,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Forensic Medicine Science Law","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88336840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i2.7928
S. Perera
{"title":"Reporting of Systematic Reviews in Medical Journals: Points to Ponder","authors":"S. Perera","doi":"10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i2.7928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i2.7928","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53258,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Forensic Medicine Science Law","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81963275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-04DOI: 10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i0.7925
D. Fernando, K. Ekanayake
{"title":"Addendum to previously published article titled \"Medico-Legal Death Investigation Systems – Sri Lanka\" Sri Lanka Journal of Forensic Medicine, Science & Law, Vol. 13 (Special Issue) 2022 :53-56 DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i0.7923 Published on 30th September 2022.","authors":"D. Fernando, K. Ekanayake","doi":"10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i0.7925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i0.7925","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53258,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Forensic Medicine Science Law","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82172157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i0.7918
S. Stables
{"title":"Medico-Legal Death Investigation Systems – New Zealand","authors":"S. Stables","doi":"10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i0.7918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i0.7918","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53258,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Forensic Medicine Science Law","volume":"88 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83840315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i0.7915
L. Seetohul, Simi Peter
{"title":"Medico-Legal Death Investigation Systems – England & Wales","authors":"L. Seetohul, Simi Peter","doi":"10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i0.7915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i0.7915","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53258,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Forensic Medicine Science Law","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81163111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i0.7916
K. Foo, P. Beh
{"title":"Medico-Legal Death Investigation Systems – Hong Kong","authors":"K. Foo, P. Beh","doi":"10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i0.7916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i0.7916","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53258,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Forensic Medicine Science Law","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88261407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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