The Bombay high court recently struck down a Mumbai sessions court order allowing the police to take tissues or blood sample of a minor for conducting DNA fingerprinting, which the police aimed to use as evidence in a case of abetment to suicide. The mother of the minor and her alleged paramour face the charge of abetting the suicide of her husband. Accordingly, the additional sessions judge on July 27, 2017 granted permission to the investigation officer to conduct the forensic examination. The woman had approached the high court challenging the July 2017 order. “The petitioner’s minor son could not have been directed to undergo a DNA test,” said justice Mohite-Dere while quashing the sessions court order.

Source: Hindustan Times February 03, 2018 19:30 UTC