The Delhi high court on Saturday deferred to March 8, the decision on the date of the DNA test for Congress leader N.D. Tiwari on a paternity suit by a youth claiming to be his biological son. The court issued notice to the Centre for Cellular Microbiology, Hyderabad, seeking an explanation for not discussing the test procedure with the court. The court has asked the centre to reply before March 8.
A single-judge bench of the high court had on December 23, 2010, asked Tiwari to undergo a DNA test on the paternity suit filed by Rohit Shekhar, 31, who claims to be his biological son born out of the leader’s alleged relationship with his mother Ujjwala Sharma.
The HC had on February 10, dismissed Tiwari’s petition challenging the DNA test order. The formalities as to how and where Tiwari’s blood sample will be drawn for the test would be determined on March 8 by Delhi high court’s joint registrar Deepak Garg in the presence of the counsels. Meanwhile, the court rejected Tiwari’s plea to defer the formalities on the grounds that he intended to move Supreme Court against the HC’s division bench order upholding the single judge’s order for his DNA test.