High Court orders daily hearing of paternity case against N D Tiwari
8 Jan 2013 6:57 AM IST
The Delhi HC has ordered for a day-to-day basis hearing on the paternity suit of Rohit Shekhar to declare senior Congress leader ND Tiwari as his biological father.
‘The local commissioner is hereby directed to conduct, preferably, the hearing on a day-to-day basis,’ Justice Manmohan said.
The HC ordered this after Tiwari's counsel refused to settle the issue out of the court through mediation. The counsel said that there was a possibility that the medical evidence was not hundred percent accurate.
‘Let this matter go to the mediation centre for settling it as the medical evidence in the form of DNA report clearly suggests that the respondent (Tiwari) is the father of the petitioner (Rohit Shekhar),’ Justice Manmohan observed.
However, Tiwari's counsel did not accept the court's suggestion and submitted that his client would like to contest the suit as the scientific proof cannot be held to be conclusive.
‘It is almost conclusive and it seems that he does not want to do it (mediation process)’, the court said and asked Vimala Maken, who has been appointed as local commissioner in the case, to proceed on day-to-day basis with the recording of evidence in the matter. The local commissioner would initiate the proceedings from 21 Jan, the court said.
‘The local commissioner is hereby directed to conduct, preferably, the hearing on a day-to-day basis,’ Justice Manmohan said.
The HC ordered this after Tiwari's counsel refused to settle the issue out of the court through mediation. The counsel said that there was a possibility that the medical evidence was not hundred percent accurate.
‘Let this matter go to the mediation centre for settling it as the medical evidence in the form of DNA report clearly suggests that the respondent (Tiwari) is the father of the petitioner (Rohit Shekhar),’ Justice Manmohan observed.
However, Tiwari's counsel did not accept the court's suggestion and submitted that his client would like to contest the suit as the scientific proof cannot be held to be conclusive.
‘It is almost conclusive and it seems that he does not want to do it (mediation process)’, the court said and asked Vimala Maken, who has been appointed as local commissioner in the case, to proceed on day-to-day basis with the recording of evidence in the matter. The local commissioner would initiate the proceedings from 21 Jan, the court said.
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