The Delhi High Court today asked former governor ND Tiwari to appear in person on May 26 before it to give blood sample for a DNA test to decide the paternity suit of a person claiming to be his son.

Registrar of Delhi High Court Deepak Garg asked the medical chief of the dispensary, located inside the high court premises, to appoint a doctor for collecting the blood sample on May 26, the next date of hearing.

The court's direction came after it was informed that the requisite DNA kit has been received by the high court registry from Hyderabad-based lab Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics.

The court's directions came on the plea of Rohit Shekhar seeking to compel Tiwari to furnish his blood sample at the earliest to decide the four-year-old paternity suit.