The importance of knowledge regarding standards in hand writing analysis and criminal justice system

Page: 471-474

P. N. Sandheep and G. S. Venumadhava (Department of Criminology and Forensic Science, Karnataka University, Dharwad, Karnataka)

Aim of this research study is to exhibits the present scenario of forensic hand writing analysis such as lack of knowledge regarding the forensic hand writing analysis in the criminal justice system including police force. Forensic document examination mainly concentrated on the analysis of disputed handwriting and signatures and comparison of disputed writing with standard writings. The criminal justice system is a system which provides justice to the person, who committed crimes. Objective of the hand writing analysis is the identification of the source of writing and its importance in particular offence, etc. The source of writing can be decided by the characteristics, which are available in the writing. In some cases the source of writing may leads to the identification of offender. Hence our criminal justice system should have the knowledge about the technology of forensic hand writing examination. As of this reason the evidence collecting authority whether it police or court should collect the proper and suitable standards. In this simple research study the examiner collect the number of files which have no proper standards available for the hand writing analysis and find the percentage of same. The percentage and result of the examination has been being discussed in detail in this research paper. As of this study we will get an alert for collecting the proper standards and importance of admitted standards on the forensic signature analysis and inevitability of possessing knowledge regarding the forensic hand writing examination in the criminal justice system.