Job Descriptions of Medico Legal Officers in Criminal Cases

Apart from his routine and usual clinical cases, a Medico Legal Officer will come across certain Medico Legal problems at one time or the other during the practice of his profession. The general conception that only the doctors working in the government hospitals would be involved in such cases has now been dispelled by the recent decision of the honorable courts. A good working knowledge of the laws in this regard, coupled with a thorough understanding of the correct methodology of treating such cases, is the need of the hour.