दम घोंटना (en. Smothering)

He has further submitted that had it been a case of strangulation then hyoid bone of deceased would be broken while it was not so in the present case, and this is suggestive of the fact that it was not a case of strangulation but of smothering.

As per the findings at the scene and over the dead body it is suspected that the culprits done the victim to death either by smothering or by hitting her head to wall corner edge and later dragged her dead body into the bathroom and might have cohabitated.

P-1 in which he has stated that after the postmortem examination, he gave the 'tentative' cause of death as 'cerebral and pulmonary oedema secondary to smothering'.

P12 that they collected semen on the body of the deceased at the time of P.M. examination and that also establishes that the deceased was raped and murdered by smothering.

In cases of suffocation, there may be findings of gagging, chocking, smothering and deficiency of oxygen or presence of poisonous gases can be seen.

Burke supposedly didn’t take part in this murder, asking Hare to do the smothering, as Ann was a friend.

In the aforesaid scenario, it cannot be said with certainty as to whether Dorathi died of smothering or being a heart patient, the actual cause of death was cardiac arrest.