Journal de recherche médico-légale

An Assessment of Ambidextrous Handwriting Characters: A Future Prospect for Forensic Document Examiners

Abstract

Ravindra Sharma*, Pankaj Mohan, Devender Kumar, Yasar Mirza and Ichha Yadav

Handwriting Analysis is a tedious and methodical process that relies on extensive knowledge and skill of individuals in letter formation having unique characteristics. In the present study, handwritings were collected from the 30 students of age group 10-16 years containing about 1800 characters of lower-case alphabets that were well acquainted with ambidextrous writings for An Assessment of Ambidextrous handwriting characters: A Future Prospect for Forensic Document Examiners. The study was carried out at Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Bhopal. Ambidextrous handwritings i.e. left-handed writings and right-handed writings were identified on the basis of handwriting characteristics of size & shape of characters and hypothesis considered that there is significant similarities in both left-hand and right hand writings (LH/RH) within the range of natural variation of the Ambidextrous writer, it means that there were no fundamental divergences amongst the writings written with both left and right hand of Ambidextrous writer.