Importance of DNA test in this day

7. When asked as to what loss, if any, was to be caused to Mst. Shahnaz Akhtar, the petitioner if the DNA test was conducted as ordered by the learned Judge Family Court, the learned counsel for the petitioner evaded and ducked the question. It was simply urged by him that the learned Judge Family Court is not vested with any authority to pass any such order and that the disputed as to the parentage ought to be resolved by a Civil Court. His attention was invited to the recent judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of Pakistan reported as “Salman Akram Raja and another v. Government of Punjab through C hief Secretary, and others”(2013 S C M R 203) in which an indepth discussion was made by the apex Court regarding the value and importance of DNA test. He took the plea that regardless of the importance of DNA test in this day and age, it is wholly unnecessary in the case of the petitioner. Be that as it may, he could not show as to how the impugned order is illegal or without jurisdiction or how it suffers from illegal infirmity. 

Part of Judgment : 

LAHORE HIGH COURT MULTAN BENCH, MULTAN 

WP- Family Law
3707-12

2014 LHC 7180