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2022 Supreme(SC) 393

INDIRA BANERJEE, A. S. BOPANNA
PRIYANKA JANARDHAN PATIL – Appellant
Versus
JANARDHAN RAGHUNATH PATIL – Respondent


Advocates appeared:
For the Petitioner(s):Sangeeta Bharti, Sujeeta Srivastava, Kamna Vohra, Advocates
For the Respondent(s):Vinay Navare, Rashmi Singhania, Advocates

ORDER

1. This special leave petition is against an order dated 29.11.2019 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Bombay dismissing the civil revisional application being Writ Petition No. 7776 of 2017. The relevant part of the impugned order is extracted hereinbelow :

    “7. The aforestated chronology of events have been pleaded by the respondent in his written statement, so also in his application filed below Exhibit – 19 before the Trial Court and repetition of the same is hereby avoided for the sake of brevity.

    8. As noted earlier, there is a strong suspicion in the mind of the respondent-husband about the paternity of the child which has been from the wedlock of the petitioner and therefore the respondent had filed the aforestated application below Exhibit 19 for conducting DNA test of the child and the parties herein. By now, it is well settled position of law that, the result of a genuine DNA test is said to be scientifically accurate. That, due to advanced scientific technology, conducting of DNA test would certainly throw light on the paternity of the child, which the respondent is seriously disputing and/or having serious doubt about it. The respondent cannot be foisted with

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