1Department of Forensic Medicine, Government Medical College, Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India
2Department of Forensic Medicine, Government Medical College, Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India
3Department of Community Medicine, School of Medical Science & Research, Sharda University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
4Department of Forensic Medicine, Shaheed Hasan Khan Mewati, Government Medical College, Mewat, Haryana, India
5Department of Forensic Medicine, School of Medical Science & Research, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India
6Government Allopathic Medical College, Banda, Uttar Pradesh, India
*Corresponding author email id: preeti4jan1990@gmail.com
The study is carried out to predict stature from upper limb anthropological measurements. Forensic anthropology is the application of anthropological knowledge in criminal investigation. So far, there are studies conducted to estimate stature from hand measurements, but from this region of Uttarakhand, studies are lacking. Such a study can assist in the identification of deceased individuals whose remains are decomposed, burned, mutilated or otherwise unrecognisable. In this study, attempt will be made to find the correlation between stature and hand dimension. The identification of individual from skeletal remains and badly decomposed or otherwise unidentified human remains is important in both legal and humanitarian contexts and also to give closure.
Forensic anthropology, Stature, Hand length, Hand breadth, Identification
