“Identification is an individual’s birth right”. Many characteristics can be used to identify a person. Age , sex & stature are the primary characteristics for the identification of an individual. Stature is an important & useful anthropometric parameter to determine the physical identity of an individual and as such, stature prediction occupies a relatively central position in the anthropometric research. Earlier workers in India have studied percutaneous measurement of different bones of upper & lower extremities or feet measurement alone but hardly any work has been done in correlating the arm span for estimation of stature. The present study has been undertaken with a view to correlate right upper limb measurements with the stature. Analysis is based on the 150 (75 males & 75 females) young & healthy students studying in the SKIMS Medical College & Hospital , bemina , Srinagar , J&K ,India. Regression formulae were constructed for males& females related to the real body height measurement in the erect standard position. The results indicate that the arm span length measurements studied were strongly & positively correlated with stature. In conclusion, the study suggested that estimation of a living height can be made possible by the percutaneous measurements of the upper extremity