Biometric identificationAbsolute personal recognition is effectively required in many applications like secure access to buildings, sensitive premises (i.e., nuclear reactors, defense establishments) laptops, cellular phones, computer systems, ATMs etc. Biometric recognition or, simply, biometrics is the automatic recognition of individuals based on their physiological and/or behavioral characteristics like fingerprints, face, hand geometry, retina, ear, iris, speech, voice, signatures, handwriting, gait etc 1 . A biometric system first captures the data, removes the redundant features, constructs a template and compares it with other templates from a database in order to verify or identify an individual. Diversification of crime, criminal and criminality has invited the focussed