India, July 10 -- The Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court recently quashed a family court's order allowing DNA profiling to ascertain a child's paternity on the grounds of the mother's alleged adultery. The court said that allegations of adultery alone cannot be the grounds to justify a paternity test unless a husband proves he had no access to his wife during the time of conception.

The high court also criticised the Nagpur family court's decision to allow the man's application for his child to undergo a DNA test, saying it hadn't considered the best interests of the child.

The case dates back to January 2013, when a woman, after over two years of marriage, left her matrimonial home while she was three months pregnant. Her husband th...