Quiz crosscheck- sangita F.M

In chronic cocaine users, degeneration of central nervous system will result in hallucinations, convulsions, delirium and insanity.

Magnan’s symptom or cocaine bugs is characteristic of chronic cocaine users, in which there is feeling as if grains of sand are lying under the skin or small insects are creeping on the skin giving rise to itching sensation (formication, tactile hallucination).

D i.e. All

A i.e. Criminal responsibility

Ans. B: Suicidal deaths

Hesitation cuts derive their name from the hesitation with which these incisions are inflicted by a person intending to commit suicide by a cutting instrument.

The preliminary cuts are known as tentative cuts

Hesitation cuts are not found in homicidal assaults

Hesitation/ tentative wounds

• They are defined either as: any cut or wound that is self-inflicted after a decision is made not to commit suicide, or any tentative cut or wound that is made before the final cut that causes death.
• Such wounds are usually superficial, sharp, forced skin cuts found on the body of victims.
• These less severe cutting marks are often caused by attempts to build up courage before attempting the final, fatal wound.
• Non-fatal, shallow hesitation wounds can also accompany the deeper, sometimes fatal incisions.
• Although hesitation cuts are not always present in cases of suicide, they are typical of suicidal injuries.
• However, the presence of hesitation marks alongside or near to the final fatal mark usually indicates a forensic diagnosis of suicide over other possible causes of death.
• Hesitation wounds are generally straight-line marks at the elbows, neck/throat, and wrists, although in a few cases they occur in the general area of the upper middle part of the abdomen (near the heart).
• Wounds made by people attempting suicide are typically made at an angle related to the hand that holds the weapon.
• The angle of such hesitation wounds is usually in a downward flowing direction because of the natural motion of the arm as it sweeps across the body.
• Hesitation wounds are often made under clothing, with particular parts of the clothing being parted to expose the target area of the body.
• Instruments used to inflict hesitation wounds are generally those found around the living quarters of the person attempting suicide.
• Such instruments include kitchen knives, single-edge and double-edge knifes, pocket knives, hatchets, razor blades, screwdrivers, and other sharp objects.
• People who have previously attempted suicide, but have not succeeded in their endeavor, will often carry visible scars from hesitation wounds.

Ans. 30 days

Ans. Inability to initiate sexual arousal in female

Ans. Grandiosity

Ans. Panic disorder

Ans. Associated with dim light

Ans. Person flees from an immediate life situation

Ans. Hypochondriasis

Ans. Catalepsy

Ans. Hypersomnia

Ans. Grinding of teeth during sleep

Ans. Moderate

Ans. Ability to make a valid will

Ans. Sec. 84

Ans. is `e’ i.e., Insanity

Lucid interval is seen in insanity and epidural haemorrhage.

Lucid interval is a state of consciousness between two episodes of unconsciousness in subacute/chronic epidural haemorrhage. It is significant that during this period (lucid interval), the person can :

(i) Make a valid will, (ii) Can give valid evidence, and (iii) Is legally responsible for act done (civil/criminal).

Lucid interval is also seen in insanity, i.e. the period of sanity between two phases of insanity.

Ans. is ‘a’ i.e., Crime by a person with mental disease

Criminal responsibility of insane is judged by the following rules :

Mc Naughten rule (legal test or right or wrong test) :

It states that an accused person is not legally responsible if it is proved that at the time of committing the crime, the person was suffering from such a defect of reason from an abnormality of mind that he didn’t know the nature and quality of the act he was doing or that what he was doing was wrong i.e. a person is not responsible if he is not of sound mind.

Durhan rule- Accused is not responsible for the act, if his actions resulted from mental disease or defect.

Currens rule- A person is not responsible if, at the time of committing the crime, he could not regulate his conduct according to the requirements of the law, as a result of his mental disease or defect.

Ans. is ‘d’ i.e., Resp ispa loquitar