Authors : Mithila Chinchalkar; Shreeya Bhaskar Kulkarni; Sumeet Lolge

Volume/Issue : Volume 8 - 2023, Issue 11 - November

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10243338

Abstract : In mass casualties, commingling, mutilations, or sunder of organs in natural calamities, murders, or accidents it is difficult to identify the individuals. Therefore, identifying and determining the stature of a person from the obtained evidence is a task for forensic sciences. There is a constant relation between every body part and the height of a person. Research on relationships between different parts such as foot length etc has been done, but not much data has been collected so far for defining the relation of all the finger lengths and heights. Hence this project/survey was undertaken in which measurements of finger length of both left and right hands along with the height of the individual were collected. About 150 samples of different heights and age groups were gathered. Using statistical data, a mathematical formula was derived. In the end, we can infer that the height of an individual can be determined by its finger length with great precision.

Keywords : Stature, Finger Length, Mutilations.