LAWS(DLH)-2012-4-287

ROHIT SHEKHAR Vs. NARAYAN DUTT TIWARI

Decided On April 27, 2012
ROHIT SHEKHAR Appellant
V/S
NARAYAN DUTT TIWARI Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The challenge in this appeal is to the judgment dated 23 rd September, 2011 of the learned Single Judge allowing I.A. No. 10394/2011 of the respondent no.1 (defendant no.1 in the Suit) in CS(OS) No. 700/2008 filed by the appellant. Notice of the appeal was issued and the counsels have been heard.

(2.) CS(OS) No. 700/2008 is filed by the appellant for declaration, that he is the natural born son of the respondent no.1 and the respondent no.2 Dr. Ujjwala Sharma, and that the respondent no.1 is the father of the appellant and for perpetual injunction restraining respondent no.1 from denying in public or otherwise the fact that he is the father of the appellant. The said suit is pending consideration.

(3.) During the pendency of the suit, the appellant filed I.A. No. 4720/2008 under Order XXXIX Rules 1 & 2 of the Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) for direction to the respondent no.1 to submit himself for a DNA test and/or any other test required to determine the parentage of the appellant. The said application was contested by the respondent no.1. The learned Single Judge before whom the suit was then pending, vide order/judgment dated 23 rd December, 2010 allowed the said application and directed the parties to appear before the Joint Registrar on 8 th February, 2011; the Joint Registrar was directed to arrange for the DNA testing of the respondent no.1 by the Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (Constituent Laboratory of the Council of Scientific Industrial Research, Government of India); the respondent no.1 was directed to, on the date and time to be designated by the Joint Registrar, furnish the samples for such testing; the said Institute was directed to furnish the report to the Court within six weeks of receiving the samples.