Giving another setback to former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal Narayan Dutt Tiwari, Delhi High Court Friday rejected another plea of veteran congress leader seeking to be kept his DNA test report confidential till the conclusion of the hearing in a paternity suit.
Rejecting the plea, Justice Reva Khetrapal, who is hearing a case of Rohit Shekhar (32), claiming that he is biological son of Narayan Dutt Tiwari, said the DNA report would be opened in court on July 27.
Delhi HC has ordered to take the blood sample of Tiwari forcefully, if he denies to provide his blood sample self for conducting the paternity test.
Tiwari (97) had also requested the court to allow in-camera proceedings.
Rohit Shekhar had filed the suit in 2008.
Hyderabad-based Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics recently submitted DNA reports of Tiwari, Rohit and his mother Ujjwala Sharma in court.
Tiwari had on May 29 furnished his blood sample for the DNA test at his residence in Dehradun following orders of the Supreme Court and the Delhi high court.
Tiwari said in his plea, "Direct all concerned to comply with the directions passed by the Supreme Court, and let the DNA report completely sealed and confidential till conclusion of the entire trial or alternatively at reasonable appropriate stage in the suit."
Referring to one of the Supreme Court orders, he said the apex court had made it clear that the DNA report would remain confidential till the conclusion of "reasonable, appropriate and proportionate trial".
"Pass appropriate directions to conduct entire trial and all proceedings relating to the civil suit in-camera," his plea said.
He said Rohit and his mother were "leaving no stone unturned to get the report unsealed and make it public to attract undue media attention without completion of trial".
--With IANS Inputs--
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