Medical Jurisprudence–Viscera–When can be required to be preserved and submitted ?–
(i) when the investigation officer requests for such an examination,
(ii) when the medical officer suspects the presence of poison by smell or some other evidence while conducting an autopsy on the injury case.
(iii) to exclude poisoning, in instances where the cause of death could not be arrived at on post mortem examination and there is no natural disease or injury to account for it, and
(iv) in decomposed bodies.


