Discussion
In accidental cases, when the body of the victim is brought for autopsy, the autopsy conduct is :
Answer: C
The autopsy conducted is a medico-legal autopsy.
Every unnatural death, including an accident, is a police case in which the law needs the cause and manner of death established. The autopsy is therefore ordered by the investigating officer or magistrate, and performed to answer legal questions: the identity of the deceased, the cause and time of death, and whether the injuries fit the account of an accident.
An anatomical autopsy is a dissection of a donated body for teaching anatomy. A clinical (pathological) autopsy is done in hospital, with the relatives' consent, to study disease in a natural death. 'Individual autopsy' is not a recognised type.
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