DNA test ordered to confirm paternity

CLAIMING PATERNITY: When Khader saw Rajesh at the Kollam Juvenile Home on Monday.

KOLLAM: District Judge S.S. Sathesachandran on Monday issued orders for conducting the Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid (DNA) test for proving the paternity of a 15-and-a-half-year old deaf and dumb inmate of the Juvenile Home here. Rajesh has been at the home since 2001.

On Monday morning, a native of Haripad, Abdul Khader, employed in Mysore arrived at the Juvenile Home claiming that Rajesh was his son. He narrates that his wife, Khadeeja, had delivered a son at a Mysore hospital on May 27, 1991. On the third day, the infant went missing. A case in this connection had been registered at a police station in Mysore.

The efforts of Mohammed Humayun, counsellor at the home, brought Mr. Khader to Kollam in the hope of being reunited with his son.

On being produced before the District Court, the Judge was dissatisfied with Mr. Khader's explanation.

This prompted the Judge to order the DNA test. Mr. Humayun said that the test would be conducted at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Biotechnology in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday and the results would be available on Wednesday.

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