About Forensic Department
  1. First department in state to start MD in Forensic Medicine in Maharashtra i.e. in 1980.
  2. Till date more than 80 post graduates were passed from this department.
  3. First department in IGGMC to get MCI recognition.
  4. A web based ERP Software (Enterprise Resource Planning Software) for all medico legal reports which includes autopsy report, age estimation report, physical examination of sexual assault accused report, sexual assault victim examination report, death certificate, form no 4 and 8, viscera forms, histopathology form has been implemented.  It is the only centre in India which has such facilityBenefits of ERP software are as follows- 
    • Viscera form, histopathology form, provisional post-mortem report and death certificate can be submitted immediately.
    • Post-mortem report can be submitted in the department within 24 hours.
    • Soft copy of all medico legal documents can be preserved and can be retrieved whenever required.
    • Data analysis of any parameters can be easily done in a very short time which is highly beneficial for research purposes.
  5. Lecture hall with 250 student seating capacity with fully air conditioned and audio-visual aids as per NMC norms constructed in 2019
  6. Intake capacity –
        a) MD Forensic Medicine – 3 Seats
        b) BPMT Forensic Medicine – 3 Seats
  7. Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
  8. Medicolegal autopsies – About 1800 – 2000 autopsies are conducted in each year.
  9. Age determination, Examination of alleged accused of sexual offences, Weapon examinations, Exhumations, Imparting training to Police and judicial officials etc.
  10. Department has played a major role in seeking approval for the Cadaveric Organ Retrieval Centre at IGGMC in year 2018.
  11. Department has separate seminar room for post graduate teaching, departmental library with more than 2000 old and new books of forensic medicine and also separate rooms for each faculty.
  12. A mortuary hall was constructed in the year October 2017 with three autopsy tables with water and underground drainage facility.  
  13. Department constructed cold Storage complex in year 2019.
  14. Three Cold storage cabinets with each having 6 cadaver capacity has been installed in 2020. 
  15. New mortuary complex construction phase one was started in 2020 after completing all administrative approvals. Mortuary upgradation phase one is now in ending phase. It consists of :
  • Routine autopsy hall with four fully equipped autopsy tables along with balcony for observation of autopsy with a capacity of 50 to 60 students with audio visual aids.
  • Walk in cold room for preserving 20 cadavers.
  • Cold storage cabinet rooms
  • Histopathology lab.
  • Demonstration/lecture hall with 50 persons seating capacity
  • X-ray room.
  • Record room.
  • Body weighing room.
  • Body noting room.
  • Doctors room.
  • Attendants room.
  • Sample preservation room
  • Office and store room
  1. The existing mourner shed was extended. The new extension of mourner shed is 12 meter x 6 meter with attached toilet and water facilities for relatives of deceased. It was constructed in year 2020.
  2. A new police chowky constructed in year 2019.


 

Administrative Block
250 Capacity Lecture Hall fully air conditioned with audio-visual aids as per NMC norms

Present Mortuary

Cold Storage Complex (Built in 2019)
Cold Storage Cabinets - Capacity of 18 bodies (Installed in 2020)


Extension of Mourner Shed (Built in 2020)

Police Chowky

Parking Area for vehicles of  relatives of the deceased near mortuary

Future Plans of the Department
  1. Department had taken workshop of Police Officers and also Public Prosecutors.
  2. As this is a pioneer department to start post graduate course in forensic medicine in the year 1980 in Maharashtra. Department is aiming to start all the investigations related with post mortem examination that is histopathology and chemical analysis under one roof.
  3. Similarly Department is aiming to conduct various workshops for public prosecutors to help them to present the case before the Honourable Courts which may help to impart justice. 
  4. Department is aiming to conduct various workshops for registered medical practitioners to prevent medical negligence and also allegations of medical negligence.
  5. Department is aiming to conduct induction training of medical officers of public health department which will improve the quality of medico legal work and medico legal reports at the remote periphery.
Mortuary Upgradation Phase I (Front Side View)

Mortuary Upgradation Phase I (Back Side View)

Vision Statement of the Department
  1. Development of full-fledged histopathology lab in the department.
  2. Establishment of a 24 hours clinical Forensic Medicine unit in casualty of college.
  3. As this is a pioneer department to start post graduate course in forensic medicine in the year 1980 in Maharashtra. Department is aiming to start all the investigations related with post mortem examination that is histopathology and chemical analysis under one roof.
  4. As department is going to have 50 to 60 seating capacity viewing balcony for autopsy examination at the end of this year. Department is aiming to conduct various workshops for police personals to help them in criminal investigation which may help to impart justice. 
  5. Similarly Department is aiming to conduct various workshops for public prosecutors to help them to present the case before the Honourable court which may help to impart justice. 
  6. Department is aiming to conduct various workshops for registered medical practitioners to prevent medical negligence and also allegations of medical negligence.
  7. Department is aiming to conduct induction training of medical officers of public health department which will improve the quality of medico legal work and medico legal reports at the remote periphery.
     
Teaching Staff

Designation

Number

Full name of faculty

Date of joining the present institute

Teaching Experience (Years)

A.

Professor

1

Dr. Makarand S. Vyawahare

19/06/2017

24 years

B.

Associate Professor

1

Dr. Jaydeo L. Borkar

07/09/2018

12 years

2

Dr Dinesh Akarte

02/02/2023

8 Years

C.

Assistant Professor

1

Dr. Sundeep Ingale

27/02/2023

7 years

2

Dr. Deepak Sangle

16/08/2014

6 years

3

03/10/2016

4 years

4

-

-

D.

Medical Officer

1

Dr. Akshay P. Narad

01/02/2020

2 year

F.

Postgraduate Student (JRI, JRII, JRIII)

JR3

Dr. Azim Memdani (JRII)

02/05/2019

-

G.

JR1

Dr Tushar Uikey

Dr Sakshi Aglawe

Dr Revati Rakhunde

Dr Balasaheb Dhage

21/03/2023

28/03/2023

23/12/2022

21/04/2023

-

Non-Teaching Staff

Designation

Number

Name of the worker

Clerk/ Stenographer

1

Shri Kapilkumar Meshram

2

Shri Vilas Baligwar

Sweeper

1

Shri Kiran Manpiya

2

Shri Kaustubh Manpiya

3

Shri Rajat Bamnet

Lab Attendant

1

Shri Dilip Dhokne

-

Technician

1

-

Asst. Technician

1

Shri Amol Deshpande

2

-

Peon

1

Shri Manoj Chandrawanshi

2

Shri Mahesh Gaure

3

Shri Ankaj Dharod

4

Shri Karan Samundre

Research Projects, Publications & Presentations

Publication details

Total number of publications -

Sr. No.

Journal Name

Type of Article

Title

Author details

Year of publication

Medicolegal update

Original

Study of suicidal deaths in Nagpur.

Dr. M. S. Vyawahare

2018

Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine

Original

Injury Constellations in Light Motor Vehicular Accidental Deaths: An Autopsy Experience

Dr. M. S. Vyawahare

Dr. C. V. Tingne

2018

Indian Journal of Applied Research

Original

Comparison of chronological age with radiological age from radiographic evaluation of mandibular third molar in Indian Females.

Dr. M. S. Vyawahare

Dr. C. V. Tingne

2017

Indian Journal of Scientific Research

Original

Ascertaining age in Indian Females by radiographic study of mandibular third molar

Dr. M. S. Vyawahare

Dr. C. V. Tingne

2017

Indian Journal of Applied Research

Original

Patterns Of Injuries In Cases Of Fatal Road Traffic Accident In Central Region Of India

Dr. M. S. Vyawahare

Dr. S. S. Giri

2017

Indian Journal of Applied Research

Original

Study of Hanging in tertiary care centre of central India

Dr. M. S. Vyawahare

2017

International Journal of Scientific Research

Original

Study of Homicide in Nagpur - A central region of India.

Dr. M. S. Vyawahare

2017

International Journal of Scientific Research

Original

Study of suicide in Nagpur with respect to demographic profile and method of adopted suicide

Dr. M. S. Vyawahare

2017

International journal of scientific Research

Original

Role of external injuries in ascertain the cause of death in bodies retrieved from water

Dr. M. S. Vyawahare

Dr. J. L. Borkar

2017

International Journal of Scientific Research

Original

Study of patterns of Head injury in Govt. Medical College Nagpur

Dr. J. L. Borkar

2018

International Journal of Scientific Research

Original

Gotmar: A traditional Fatal Stone Pelting Fair

Dr. J. L. Borkar

2017

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

Original

Age determination by spheno-occipital synchondrosis fusion in Central Indian population

Dr. C. V. Tingne

2018

Indian Journal Of Forensic Medicine And Toxicology

Original

Sociodemographic Study Of Poisoning Cases At Iggmc Nagpur

Dr. C. V. Tingne

2016

Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine

Case report

Fatal Blast Wave Injuries Due to Tyre Burst: An Unusual Case. J Indian Acad Forensic Med

Dr. C. V. Tingne

2016

European Journal of Pharmaceutical and Medical research.

Case report

Suicidal Corrosive Ingestion: A case report

Dr. C. V. Tingne

2016

Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine

Original

Estimation of Postmortem Interval in Early Postmortem Period Using Serum Enzymes and its Correlation with Rigor Mortis and Postmortem Lividity

Dr. S. S. Giri

Dr. C. V. Tingne

2017

European Journal of Forensic Sciences

Original

Comparison of autopsy findings with that of computed tomography scan findings in cases of head injury admitted at tertiary care center in central India

Dr. S. S. Giri

2017

Legal Medicine

Case report

Body packing and intravaginal body pushing of cocaine. A case report

Dr. V. K. Wankhade

2018

Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

Original

Autopsy evaluation of perinatal mortality. A study of 84 cases

Dr. V. K. Wankhade

2018

Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

Original

Profile and patterns of homicidal injuries in central Indian population

Dr. V. K. Wankhade

2018

International Journal of Medical Toxicology & Legal Medicine

Original

A. 3D-CT scan based craniometric study of frontal sinus in dry crania and its use in forensic identification.

Dr Sundeep Ingale

2019

Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

Original

Measurement of Cranial Capacity by CT Scan & Its Forensic Significance: A Multi Center Study.

Dr Sundeep Ingale

2019

Cureus

Review

Artificial intelligence in forensic medicine and toxicology: The future of forensic medicine.

Dr Sundeep Ingale

2022

Conferences, CME & Workshop

Conferences, CME & Workshop

Sr. No.

Name of the faculty

Name of Conferences, CME & Workshop

Year

1.

Dr. S. S. Giri

Curriculum implementation and support program

2019

Dr Sundeep Ingale

Revised Basic Course Workshop

2021

Dr Sundeep Ingale

CISP-I and CISP-II

2021

Dr Sundeep Ingale

Medico-legal Association of Maharashtra-National Conference-Nashik

2022

Dr Dinesh Akarte

Indian Association of Forensic Medicine- National conference- Hyderabad

2022

Dr J L Borkar

IAMLE Conference, Shillong

2023

PG Dissertation topics

PG Dissertation topics

Sr. no.

Year

Name of PG student

PG Guide

Dissertation topic

1.

2019 – 20

Dr. Azim Memdani

Dr. M.S. Vyawahare

Patterns of Head Injuries in Vehicular Accidents in Nagpur region: A prospective study

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