Abstract

Handwriting is a person’s particular & individual style of writing with pen or pencil, which contrasts with “Hand’’ which is an impersonal and formalized writing style in several historical varieties. In the present study 100 samples of handwriting were collected for the “Identification of handedness of author on the basis of their strokes and characteristic features’’. Out of 100 handwriting samples, 50 were left-handed writer and 50 were right-handed writer. The study was carried out at the School of Forensic-Science, SHIATS, Allahabad. Left-handed writing and Righthanded writing samples were identified on the basis of horizontal strokes and slope and the hypothesis considered that there is significant difference in left-handed writing and right-handed writing were checked.

Highlights

  • In this study an attempt is made to differentiate the left handed and right handed writer by the horizontal stroke and the direction of slope. This is assumed that the Right Handed writers make strokes from left-to-right and Left Handed writers make strokes from right-to-left

  • The Right Handed writers makes forward slope and Left Handed writers makes backward slope

  • The HW samples of LH writing and RH writing was observed for the characteristic features like strokes and Slope

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Introduction

In this study an attempt is made to differentiate the left handed and right handed writer by the horizontal stroke and the direction of slope. This is assumed that the Right Handed writers make strokes from left-to-right and Left Handed writers make strokes from right-to-left. The Right Handed writing and LH writing are differentiating by other characters like slope [1,2]. This slope can be examined in only cursive writing. The Right Handed writers makes forward slope and Left Handed writers makes backward slope. In the document cases document examiner eliminate many suspects with the help of this technique

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