In a significant decision, the Allahabad High Court has said that a rape survivor can not be forced to put her child to a DNA test to ascertain its paternity. A single bench comprising Justice Sangeeta Chandra of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court passed the order on a petition filed by the mother of a rape survivor seeking to challenge the order of a POCSO Court
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court set aside an order of a POCSO court which had directed for DNA test of the baby on the plea of the minor accused in the rape case.