Stature is among the factors required to establish individuality of an unidentified dead, body or any mutilated part of such body. A dismembered body parts are being frequently brought to the Medico-legal expert for generating data for identification, due to incidence of mass disasters like air crash, terrorist attacks etc. Which is quiet frequent now a days? In present study an attempt is made to estimate the stature from percutaneous tibial length (PCTL). Study consists of 100 adult males and 100 adult females between the age group of 20 – 60 years, born in Maharashtra. On computing the data, it was found that a significant positive correlation exists between the stature and percutaneous tibial length. Stature was estimated from percutaneous tibial length using simple regression analysis.

Key words: Stature, percutaneous tibial length (PCTL) and regression equation.