1School of Forensic Science, National Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar-382007, Gujarat.
2School of Forensic Science, National Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar-382007, Gujarat.
*Corresponding Author: Dr Surbhi Mathur, Senior Assistant Professor, School of Forensic Science, National Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar-382007, Gujarat. Contact: +91 96879-24168 Email: surbhi.mathur@gfsu.edu.in
Suicide notes nowadays are more commonly encountered by the document expert, with a challenge to establish its source and authenticity. It is always believed that suicide notes demonstrate high degree of natural variations in comparison to the natural writings of victims due to wide diversity of emotions. The main objective of this study is to measure the effect of emotions on the handwriting samples of victims of suicide cases in comparison to their natural handwritings. In this regard, the suicide notes and their standard samples were studied using different parameters and the class, individual and stylistic features were studied. Statistical evaluation carried out presented a significant result to be stated here. In this study significant differences in the results have been obtained for suicide note handwritings in contrast with their natural writings.
Forensic, Suicide notes, Natural writings, Handwriting, Natural variations
