Introduction Autopsy means to see for oneself. It is derived from Greek word autopsia, autos(oneself)and opsis(eye). The main prerequisite of autopsy is to provide information about the cause and mode of death. It gives us information related to death of deceased to the investigating officer as well as family members. [1-3] Many times, there are certain findings which are not related to the primary cause of death. Histopathology is of great academic value in these cases it helps in finding rare lesions that go unnoticed when the person is alive. Sometimes these underlying diseases which were unnoticed or undiagnosed during the life of an individual may be a contributory factor or may have precipitating factor towards the cause of death [4]. These findings may help in providing a defence in the court of law. The medicolegal autopsy helps us in studying not only medically diagnosed and treated lesions but also the natural evolution of untreated disease [5]. Autopsy also helps in the diagnosis of undiagnosed or misdiagnosed pathological lesions irrespective of underlying cause of death [6]. However, many incidental findings have been highlighted on histopathological examinations which have proven to be great learning tools for the pathologists as well as the forensic medicine expert.[7] Medicolegal autopsy is done to know the identity of the deceased, find out the cause of death, time of death and circumstances of death. But many times, medicolegal autopsy by a forensic expert may turn out to be a purely clinical autopsy. [8,9] Histopathological study is of great importance in improving the diagnostic setup for clinical assessment.[10] But many studies have contradictory belief that histopathological examination is not a very useful in medicolegal autopsies.[11] The aim of present study is to highlight the importance of histopathological examination of viscera in medicolegal autopsies. It helps in finding out the cause of death. It is also a helpful in making various rare diagnosis thus helping in enhancing the medical knowledge.