Abstract

Prominence of Fingerprints and palm prints have a very special repercussion in the identification of an individual due to its perpetuity, distinctive and ubiquitous nature since birth to the end of life. Palm prints covers a larger expanse of palmar surface, hence, probability of obtaining ridge/minutiae become higher. Since so long, it has been known to us that the fingerprints consist the class characteristics that are used to minimize the gradient of suspects. This study was carried out to determine the gender from the appearance of features on hypothenar area of palm and the percentage of class characteristics occurrence. In this study, subjects from an age group of 18-35 years from National Capitol Region of India were approached for sampling. As a resultant of this research, it was found that, arch and whorl class characteristics of palmar surfactant can help to distinguish the genders. The attained upshot shows that the Genders were successfully identified at p value 0.0067 for males and 0.0197 for females. The significance level was examined at P < 0.01.