The Delhi High Court today said that veteran Congress leader N D Tiwari can be compelled to give blood sample for DNA test in the paternity suit filed by a youth claiming to be his biological son.

The court set aside a single judge bench's September 2011 order that 86-year-old Tiwari cannot be compelled to give his blood sample.

A bench of acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said that police force can also be used if he continues to defy orders to undergo DNA test.

Allowing the plea of 32-year-old Rohit Shekhar, the bench disagreed with the single judge order that the court can draw adverse inference if Tiwari refused to give his blood sample.

The bench said adverse inference from non-compliance cannot be a substitute to the enforceability of a direction for DNA testing