Corpus delicti stands for –
Correct Answer: Body of offence
Description: Corpus delicti (Latin: corpus-main body or mass of the structure, delictus - offence or fault) means the essence of crime or the body of offence. It includes facts and elements of a criminal offence for example murder, road traffic accident, place of suicide etc. The main pa of corpus delicti is the establishment of the identity of the dead body, and infliction of violence in a paicular way, at a paicular time and place, by the person or persons charged with a crime and none other. Ref: Dr K.S Narayana Reddy, The Essentials of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, 34th edition, 2017, pg. 55.
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