Time between the death and post mortem

“The medical evidence can be analyzed from another angle. In the opinion of the doctor the time between the death and post mortem examination was 6 to 12 hours. She further opined that the rigor mortis starts after two hours of the death in the month of September and it is completed within 12 hours. In the instant case the rigor mortis was also completed in the dead body. She also opined that time between death and post mortem might be 14 hours.”

2012 SCMR 172

USed in Judgment of
Lahore High Court
 Criminal Appeal
113-15

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