New Delhi, July 26
Veteran congress leader ND Tiwari’s DNA test result, kept in a sealed cover, is slated to be opened and announced in the Delhi High Court tomorrow. The result will determine whether 32-year-old Rohit Shekhar is the biological son of the octogenarian Congress leader.

However, Tiwari, a former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, is making determined efforts to prevent Justice Reva Khetrapal from going ahead with making the test result public. He has approached both the HC and the Supreme Court for the purpose.

In a petition filed in the HC, Tiwari has pleaded for an immediate stay on Justice Khetrapal’s July 20 order fixing July 27 for opening the sealed cover, received from the DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) at Hyderabad which had conducted the DNA test.

The 86-year-old leader contended declaring the test result would amount to violation of the May 24, 2012 SC order for maintaining “confidentiality of the whole matter”.

Tiwari said he had already suffered a great deal of adverse publicity, propaganda and biased media reports. Announcing the result would amount to resorting to a “shortcut” for deciding the paternity suit filed by Rohit, circumventing the mandatory trial procedure, he pleaded.

In an application filed in the SC, Tiwari has sought a directive to the Single Judge of the HC not to open the sealed cover till the completion of the trial on the paternity suit. He has further contended that the HC did not have territorial jurisdiction. Also, the paternity suit was barred by limitation, having been filed in 2007 when Rohit was 27.