HANDWRITING CHARACTERISTICS VARIABILITY AMONG POPULATIONS OF DAMAN AND DIU
A.K. Kapoor · 2015
Handwriting is a personal characteristics features that distinguish one person writing from that of another. Each person Handwriting is unique. Handwriting is a useful document that use in forensic cases. The Present study focused on the self-reported Handwriting in Daman and Diu. Data was collected by door to door survey with the help of pro-forma from age group 15-50 years in three different population group namely Patel, Muslim and Macchi. Handwriting variation found in all population groups, significant value found in word spacing, line spacing, letter spacing and capital word spacing, etc of handwriting script in population groups. These results are statistically inferable over the entire Daman population, the study validated the individuality hypothesis with 95-percent confidence. It has been observed that among Patel, Muslim, and Macchi. The handwriting is not good because these people are not interested in education. More studies should be carried out on Indian population so that the handwriting may be consider as important biometric variable and ethnicity can be inferred.