Section 12 in The Jaunsar-Bawar Pargana (District Dehradun) Revenue Officials (Special Powers) Order, 1977
12. In case of hanging the following instructions shall be observed:
(1)If possible before the body is cut down or removed, the strangulating medium should be noted and any lividity of face, especially of lips and eyelids, any projection of the eyes, the state of the tongue whether enlarged and protruded or compressed between the lips, the escape of any fluid from the nostrils or mouth and the direction of its flow.(2)When the body is cut down or the strangulating medium removed, particular note should be made of the neck whether bruised along the line of strangulation.(3)The direction of the mark must be noted whether it is circular or oblique.(4)The state of the thumbs should be noted whether crossed over the palm.(5)The materials by which hanging or strangulation have been effected would, if possible, be brought away and forwarded.
