A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on all cases of deaths due to drowning autopsied at   the mortuary of Pravara Rural Hospital attached to Rural Medical College, Loni, a rural region in Western  Maharashtra, India. The study was conducted over a period of 4 years, two years retrospective (record  based) from September 2012 to August 2014 and two years prospective from September 2014 to August  2016. Data was being collected from medico-legal autopsy records of drowning victims. The cases were  studied to know the socio-demographic profile of victims, manner of death and place of drowning. The  cases represented approximately 3.42% of all autopsy cases. The manner of the death in most cases(68.89%)  was accidental in nature. Majority of the victims were male (57.78%) belonging to the age group of 11-   20 years (31.11%). Most of the victims (31.11%) were students followed by housewives (28.89%). Most  of the drowning cases (51.11%) occurred in well, followed by river (20.0%). Deaths due to drowning can  be prevented by proper education and awareness programmes. Preventive measures include teaching  swimming to children as well as adults, installing barriers controlling access to water and training bystanders  in safe rescue and resuscitation measures.