The Supreme Court of India has ruled that a child can be subjected to a court-ordered DNA paternity test in a matrimonial dispute where a husband has sought divorce on grounds of alleged unchastity and has claimed he is not the child's biological father, according to a Times of India report.
The ruling came from a bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Prasanna B Varale, which rejected a woman's plea opposing the paternity test and upheld orders passed by a family court in Pune and the Bombay High Court directing the test as part of ongoing divorce proceedings.
