Questioned document examination is a domain of forensic science pertaining to documents whose authenticity is hypothetically doubtful in a court of law. The major reason of analysis is to provide evidence about suspicious documents by employing number of scientific principles and methods. Questioned documents has always been a challenge in forensic investigations as it does not have set protocols for investigation, each case is of unique nature and basis of discovery of new methods and techniques. In this case study the authors found a peculiar similarity between the signatures of two male individuals who were distantly related to each other. The interesting fact about their relation was that they were in acquired relation i.e., having no connection of blood,  but they were both found to execute similar model of signature. These signatures on preliminary examination were found to be pictorially so similar that for a layman it could create confusion that it belongs to same writer. Even it has been noted that not only class characteristics were found to be of similar nature but also the prominent visible individual characteristics were similar. Thus, at this very point it becomes important for a forensic expert to identify and differentiate the writers of such models of signature on considering the parameters which has been discussed in the present investigation.

Keywords: Questioned Document; Handwriting Features; Simulated Forgery.