The Delhi High Court has asked its registrar to take police assistance for bringing veteran Congress leader ND Tiwari to Delhi for taking his blood sample to decide the paternity suit of a man claiming to be his son. Justice Reva Khetrapal today fixed the matter for further hearing on Monday before the Joint Registrar, who in turn will fix the date for collection of the blood sample from Mr Tiwari. The court made it clear that the process of collecting the sample will be initiated within a week after the joint

registrar receives the DNA sample kit from Hyderabad-based Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics. The court in its order said that considering the age of Mr Tiwari, the order of taking the blood sample is required to be implemented as expeditiously as possible otherwise an irreparable loss is bound to visit the plaintiff.

The court's directions came on the plea of 32-year-old Rohit Shekhar seeking to compel Mr Tiwari to furnish his blood sample at the earliest to decide the four-year-old paternity suit. He has sought a judicial declaration that Tiwari is his biological father.