Overview

• Uttar Pradesh has formally issued guidelines mandating that all post-mortems be completed within four hours of a body’s arrival at any facility.
• Videography is now compulsory in custodial deaths, police encounters and other sensitive cases including women’s deaths within 10 years of marriage with costs covered by the Rogi Kalyan Samiti.
• Chief medical officers must deploy multiple doctor teams and maintain at least two dedicated vehicles per district to ensure timely transfers and examinations.
• Night-time autopsies in murder, suicide, sexual-offence or suspicious cases require district magistrate approval and a minimum 1,000-watt lighting setup.
• Protocols now require a female doctor on panels for cases involving female victims and mandatory DNA sampling for unidentified bodies with online issuance of reports.