Part of the Forensic Docket on Legal Desire Forensics — how a forensic technique fared under appellate scrutiny.
The facts
Ruling on when a court may direct a DNA test of a minor child in a paternity dispute, the Court held that children have a right not to have their legitimacy questioned frivolously, and enumerated the circumstances that justify overriding that right, balancing it against the right to privacy.
Why this belongs in the Forensic Docket: The most recent word on DNA testing and privacy, and a reminder that the right to test does not automatically follow from a request to test.
Case details
| Citation | [2023] 4 S.C.R. 680 |
| Case number | Civil Appeal No. 2432/2023 |
| Court | Indian Supreme Court |
| Decided | 2023 |
| Module | Case Method Library |
Read the full judgment (PDF), sourced from the Indian Supreme Court Judgments open dataset (AWS Open Data Registry, CC-BY-4.0).
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