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Suicide by hanging:The biggest lie

April 24, 2017 Dr.Mohamed Athif 5 Comments

Although mechanisms of constricting forces acting around the neck of the deceased are different in both hanging and strangulation, still the ligature marks found around the necks appear almost similar. Associated bodily injuries resulting from resistance or violence may not be present in all cases of ligature strangulation. In those cases, it is only the ligature mark that helps us to differentiate hanging from strangulation.
Factors like level, discontinuity and obliquity of the ligature mark, which differentiate hanging from strangulation, are not present simultaneously in all cases of hanging or strangulation. But the ligature mark of hanging must be differentiated from the ligature mark of strangulation before giving opinion; otherwise a serious mistake can result. This can lead to in the conviction of an innocent while a murderer can go unnoticed in the society.


Note:some of the external positive findings in  a case of hanging are:
1.A non continuous ligature mark that should match with the impression that can be caused by the ligature material.Presence of abrasions, ecchymoses and redness about the ligature mark,2.Purple protruding tongue 3.Dribbling of saliva...

Dribbling of saliva is a definite sign of hanging having taken place during life
4.glove and stock pattern of post-mortem lividity.5.Petechial hemorrhages on the skin
Not a single sign of hanging was present on Raudha's body



Important External post mortem findings

1.There was no dribbling of saliva on Raudha’s face.

2.The  appearance of ligature mark not matches with an imprint that can be caused by that of a shawl.There were metallic impressions one vertical and two circular on the ligature mark.



1.   Strangulation mark on Raudha’s neck:

There were signs of manual strangulation on Raudha’s neck.

Bruising of the neck occurs due to assailant’s fingers grasping the victim’s neck when she was alive.

There were finger marks or bruising caused by manual strangulation by hand as bluish discolouration  on Raudha’s neck. The twelve members in our team saw this. I showed that to the investigating police officer.On second day of her death autopsy team shared their autopsy report with Rajshahi media and reported Raudha’s death a suicide.


When I asked for an explantion from the autopsy team after they shared it with media about the bruising marks caused by manual strangulation from hand on Raudha's neck autopsy team forensic expert Dr.Enamul  Haque took out a piece of written paper from his pocket and told this is the medical definition of birth mark.So the bruising marks on Raudhas face and neck is a birth mark.Then I asked him when does a birth mark appear on the body.He answered it’s present on the body at birth.Then I asked him if Raudha is killed by manual strangulation from hand by the assailant then how it would appear on the victm’s neck.He said if the assailant is a right hand person then the bruises caused by his right hand thumb appear on Raudha’s right side of the neck and the bruise marks caused by other fingers especially the tips would appear on the left side of the victim’s neck.


Then I ask him when its present on Raudha’s neck as you say then:

1. why you say its birth mark?

2.why the parents & family members who took care of Raudha as a child could not see that birth mark when she was born.Why the so called “BIRTH MARK” on her neck and face appeared all of a sudden after 21 years of her life and why that mark look exactly as bruises caused by manual strangulation by hand.Why these birth marks are not there in the photos she took the last 21 years of her life.

He could not answer any of my questions.Its a shame for medical community which involves a great service and responsibility towards human life and diginity.It is a great injustice caused by the autopsy team to Raudha’s death as it shows the college is trying to hide the real cause of Raudha’s death.

2  .Ligature mark on Raudha’s neck:

The ligature mark on Raudha’s neck does not match with that of a mark caused by

hanging from a shawl.I saw the material and loop produced by Rajshahi police as they claim as what Raudha used for hanging.The soft material its  length or diameter of the noosed cannot produce such a mark on Raudha’s neck.The ligature mark on her neck could be caused by strangulation from a cord.Such a discontinuous and oblique ligature mark can appear if the ligature was applied by the assailant standing from behind and the victim sitting on a chair.



Police  and the college authorities are saying my daughter Raudha Athif committed suicide by hanging. Nobody could show me even one photo of her hanging up to now even when more than twenty persons including Raudha’s batch mates , senior intern students and hostel warden entered the room to bring her down from the hanging noose. Why they could not show even one photo of my daughter hanging.?

5 comments:

  1. Has anyone thought to hang the same weight as Raudha weighed from one of those ceiling fans? Has it been proven that the fans will even HOLD the weight? I think this is also a key fact.

    It may be worth investigating. It may indicate that the person who murdered Raudha did not know anything about the hostel room in which she lived.

    May the God of Creation make things work out so that the true murderer or murderers are found and brought to the proper lawful punishment. That is my hope and prayer.

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  2. I learned of this just today. I have never heard of her before. I am a man, so she would not have crossed my radar really. I'm in England. This has been a focus of my day today. And it's terrible. I feel horrible and furious at these corrupted and bumbling idiotic buffoons. I've honesty never heard such completely unbelievable bullshit about hanging a 55KG human being from a tiny screw on a flimsy steel blade. Besides, the hanging mechanism of the fan is 1 bolt, to absorb the vibration of the fan. If you were to be so stupid as to hang a heavy object from the off-balanced fan, THE OBJECT IS GOING TO SLIDE DOWN AND OFF. It's a pivot. Those who have asserted otherwise cannot have photographs of her up there, you know why? BECAUSE SHE WILL HAVE SLID OFF. IT'S LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO. THIS INCOMPETENCE COULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED IN ENGLAND. THE BASTARDS WOULD BE LAUGHED OUT OF THE COURT. I'M PISSED OFF. THIS HAS GOT ME FUMING. DONALD TRUMP IS RIGHT. A "SHIT HOLE COUNTRY" BANGLADESH IS.

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  3. Here's my take on this. The asshole who did this, was let in voluntarily. Probably because they knew her. Hence, no door damage. A fight ensued. After smashing some stuff up, they overpowered her, grabbed her neck in their right hand, & squeezed her to a point of unconsciousness. Not wanting to leave her without 'finishing the job', they got a cord, possibly with a few knots in it (as cord often does), & while she was yet alive, throttled her until her flame was extinguished. They laid her out on the bed, because any idiot knows that there's no way she could have hung herself with what was available in the room. Knowing that the Police and the authorities are as bent as they are, there's probably little concern in their mind that they will be caught, or that a competent investigation will be made. They fabricate a bullshit story, & the piece of shit "investigation" - gives the most unbelievable verdict possible - "suicide." I'm so glad I was born in a compitent and conscientious society. I pity those who were not.

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  4. The other questions that came to me are in regards to the ceiling fan. (1) Was the ceiling fan even looked at very carefully with pictures and swabs taken? If not, maybe there could still be a bit of evidence and it certainly wouldn't hurt to look. (2) Is there any dust at all on the blades? If so, there should be evidence of the ligature material in the dust and there should be evidence of the dust in the material. There would be no reason for anyone to try removing the dust from something they're claiming caused the ligature marks. (3) The other evidence that could've been present if the material was indeed used to "commit suicide" (as they claim) is partial threads from the ligature material.

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