were present, tongue was intact inside the teeth, upper and lower limbs were in straight position, post mortem stiffness was present in both limbs, hypotoxicity was present in the posterior part of the back, fingers were stiff, throat was pulled. There was blueness in the nails of the hand, there were no marks of decomposition of the body of the deceased. He further stated that the ligature TRI material - a chunni of blue colour was around the neck, there was a knot in the noose of noose which was cut and separated and a knot was present on the left side of the neck just below the ear, the diameter of the knot was 9 cm and was inside the noose, the circumference of the noose was 36 cm, the length below the knot in the noose was 103 cm, the bigger one and the smaller one was 21 cm, the diameter of another knot was 9 cm, another knot was 83 cm from the main knot. He further stated that the circumference of the neck was 35 cms, the mark of hanging was above the thyroid collarette and was going obliquely towards the right and was dark reddish brown in colour, the mark was not there on the back of the neck and in some parts behind the ear, the mark of hanging was from the middle part going upwards and backwards on both sides in an inverted V shape near the left angle of the jaw, the length of the mark was 22 cms, the mark was 7 cms below the chin and 2 cms in width at 4 cms below the right angle of the jaw and 2 cms in width below the left angle of the jaw.It was 2 cm wide and 7 cm below the right mestral towards the right side and 1.2 cm wide, on sectioning it was dry, hard, shiny and reddish brown in colour, on dissection hyoid bone and thyroid were present on both sides.
