High Court orders DNA test of sold twin’

Justice Chalapathi also directed a Ropar resident "to bring the boy, who has been in his custody", on the same date and at the same time.

In his two-page order, Justice Chalapathi observed: "In case the petitioner and the infant children are present in the court on that date, they will be taken to the Director of the PGI, Chandigarh, by the Joint Registrar (Rules) of this court, S. N. Aggarwal, and the PGI Director, in his presence, will collect blood samples and any of the samples required from the petitioner and both the children and give the samples packed and sealed to him to be send to Hyderabad for conducting the DNA test".

Justice Chalapathi further observed: "As to who has to meet the expenses of the DNA test will be decided later. The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Taranaka, Hyderabad, will conduct the test without insisting on the deposit of any expenses for the same and submit its report directly to this court as to whether the petitioner Ramanjit Kaur has given birth to the male child whose samples have been sent to the institute for the determination of maternity". The case will now come up on August 3 for report and for further arguments.

Earlier, accusing the PGI authorities of having "handed over only the female child", petitioner Ramanjit Kaur of Ropar district had alleged that "enquiries from certain Class-IV employees of the PGI, whose names were not known to her, had revealed that two children had been born to her".

Claiming to have been informed about the twins by a Ropar doctor after going through the ultra-sound report, the petitioner had stated that the fact was confirmed by the PGI authorities also.

The counsel for the petitioner had further submitted that Superintendent of Police, deputed by the Ropar Senior Superintendent of Police to visit "the probable places where the male child could have been taken after kidnapping", had taken the photographs of the boy playing at the residence of the Ropar resident.