MST. SHAMIM AKHTAR versus ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE, GUJRANWALA
Section 5 Constitution of Pakistan, Article 199 Constitution Petitioner DNA Test Principal Petitioner married respondent and from this marriage a son was born Respondent entered second marriage and relations between the parties became strained. The applicant filed a case for recovery of his and her restitution allowance. The son's respondents resisted maintenance on the request that the son did not belong and asked for DNA test. The lower appellate court directed the parties to attend the hospital for DNA test. A profile test is always performed with the consent of the person concerned and is generally applicable. In criminal cases, no such consent was available either by the mother itself or by the child itself, where consent was not given, DNA tests could not be performed, although such denial could be taken negatively by the court. That does not require DNA testing. And the order passed by the lower appellate court petition allowed in the circumstances
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