Forensic science (often shortened to forensics) is the application of a broad spectrum of sciences to extract answers questions of legal interest. This may be in relation to a crime or to a civil action.

The students are provided with an overview of the medico legal aspects of health sciences, components of toxicology and ethics.

The department provides the medico legal support to the post mortem diagnosis and other medico legal cases of the hospital and its jurisdiction. The department has its own class room, two demonstration rooms, laboratory, departmental library.

The department runs a state of the art mortuary consisting Autopsy Rooms and another for decomposed bodies, an Inquest Room, Store Room, Doctors’ Room, Students’ Room and a Waiting Room for the mourners. There is a Cold Storage facility to  store as many as 6 bodies.