DNA tests shows ND Tiwari is Rohit Shekhar's father

NEW DELHI: In a first of its kind case involving a prominent Indian politician, the Delhi high court has made public DNA tests, which confirm that veteran Congress leader ND Tiwari is the biological father of 32-year-old Rohit Shekhar.

This brings to close a five-year legal battle on a paternity suit, which Tiwari tried to scuttle from the beginning. In Dehra Dun, Tiwari took the plea that it was a personal matter and in Delhi, an emotional Shekhar made clear that Tiwari would now have to "pay for the hurt" he caused his mother years ago. "I am not the illegitimate son, he is my illegitimate father," Shekhar said.

Tiwari had rejected the claim of Delhi-based law graduate Rohit Shekhar that he was his biological son. The Congress leader had moved seven appeals in the Supreme Court and in the Delhi high court, first refusing to give his blood sample and later trying to block the report from being made public.

Declaring the result of the DNA test, Justice Reva Khetrapal said, "as per the report, Tiwari is reported to be the biological father of Rohit Shekhar and Ujjwala Sharma is reported to be the biological mother."