The Department of Forensic Medicine at The Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences is headed by Professor. Dr. Udit B. Das, MD (Forensic Medicine). Dip ARD, who is well assisted by Dr. Sanjay Sugumar.

The forensic department at PIMS trains medical students in all aspects of forensic medicine including toxicology and proper medico legal documentation. The department imparts enough knowledge to our medical students that they are confident to tackle all kinds of medico legal problems as well as medico legal autopsies.

This is the only private institution in the state of Puducherry recognized by the state government for performing autopsies since 2003. The department performs on an average around 150 autopsies a year. The number is expected to increase in the coming years as the department has carved a niche for itself as a high quality performance oriented department second only to none in the entire union territory and neighboring districts of Tamil Nadu.

 The Department provides facilities for Embalming (Chemical preservation facilities) of dead bodies. The department has one of its kind unique cold storage facilities to preserve the dead bodies that no other medical colleges or a center in the state can boast of.

The Department has the distinction of having cent percent pass results in all the university examinations conducted till date with one third of the students securing distinction marks in the subject each time.

 The department has an excellent Forensic Museum comprising of hundreds of specimens, photographs, weapons, several poisons of biological and chemical origins and numerous charts which is interesting for public and also is of educative value to the students. The museum, well equipped lab and the fully equipped departmental library enable the students to hone there skills.

The Department is involved in conducting work shops for the police.  The faculty members are called as resource persons when ever there is a Legal meet. The department has been known nationally and internationally by doing autopsies on people from different nations.