Section 145 · Paragraph 139. Procedure to be followed while sending a dead body for post mortem examination

When the body is subsequently sent for examination, the following procedures shall be followed:
(1) The body shall be laid in the same position within the case in which it was found. No substance shall be applied to it in the hope of delaying decomposition.
(2) A police constable and a watchman shall accompany the body. If the station is more than 20 miles from the medical officer, the watchman and constable shall be relieved at one or more police stations; but the number of attendants should be kept as few as possible.
(3) The names of the constable and watchman, and the constable and watchman who relieved them, if any, shall always be entered in Police Form Nos. 13 and 33. (4) The constable accompanying the body and the station should be given a sufficient sum of money from the permanent advance of the police station to cover the expenses of porters, etc., and a cheque in Form No. 13 for receipt of the money at headquarters, if the body is sent there.
(5) The constable should be instructed by the sending officer to hand over the body, with the usual requirements, to the medical officer, who will remain in charge of the body until the medical officer has completed the examination and, in the absence of any relative, has disposed of the remains of the deceased.
(6) The investigating officer will prepare a descriptive roll of the body in duplicate, containing the following distinctive features of identification (identification) injuries that may appear on the body. He will hand one copy of this roll to the constable accompanying the body and send the other copy by post to the officer in charge at headquarters.
(7) Along with this descriptive roll, a report in Form 13 shall also be sent with the body, which shall be prepared with utmost care. From where the body is sent to Headquarters, or any other place where there is an English Police Office, a report in Form 13 in English shall be forwarded by the office to the Medical Officer, with a request for a postmortem examination in Form 33, and a detailed translation of the report on the apparent condition of the body and the cause of death, as far as the Investigating Officer has been able to ascertain.
Note
The Superintendent is authorized to ask the Civil Surgeon to conduct a postmortem examination.
(8) Before the postmortem examination is conducted, police constables and watchmen shall identify the body in the presence of the Medical Officer.
(9) As soon as possible, the Civil Surgeon's report shall be translated in the Superintendent of Police's office and sent to the Officer-in-Charge of the police station.