Thaindian News

New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) The Delhi High Court will rule Friday on veteran Congress leader N.D. Tiwari’s plea that he cannot be compelled to give a DNA sample in a paternity suit by a man claiming to be his biological son.

Tiwari’s counsel cited several Supreme Court judgments to argue that his client “can’t be compelled to give blood sample or undergo any other test like narco-analysis”.

He further submitted that Tiwari could not be pressured into giving even his nail, hair and skin samples the clinching test.

Counsel for claimant Rohit Shekhar (31), however, urged the court to ensure that the 85-year-old leader complied with the directive of a single-judge bench of the high court, later upheld by its division bench and, subsequently, the Supreme Court.

He alleged that Tiwari was indulging in “gross misuse of process of law”. Tiwari has scant regard for the court’s order Rohit contended.

Earlier, Justice Gita Mittal also pulled up Tiwari for refusing to either admit or deny, through an affidavit, the authenticity of more than 100 of his photographs with Rohit and his mother, Ujjwala Sharma, submitted to the court.

Tiwari made light of the photographs, saying he was a public figure who got photographed without prior notice and he could not be expected to recall all the pictures.

Tiwari had filed his application opposing the order of the court’s joint registrar to appear in the high court dispensary June 1 to give his blood sample for the DNA test.