CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court had made it clear that a child's legitimacy should not be put to peril by issuing directions for a DNA test in cases where the application for maintenance allowance is filed by a woman against her husband and not by the child whose paternity is under question.
The question before the HC was to determine whether the child's DNA test is necessary to decide the application for maintenance instituted by the wife, particularly when the child is not a claimant.
