Just in: The Delhi High Court has directed ND Tiwari to give his blood sample by May 26. The Delhi high court last weekn had ordered its registrar to take police assistance for bringing the defiant veteran Congress leader for taking his blood sample to decide the paternity suit of a man claiming to be his son.

The court fixed the matter for further hearing today before the Joint Registrar, who in turn fixed the date for collection of the blood sample from Tiwari as May 26.

The court made it clear that the process of collecting the sample would be initiated within a week after the joint registrar receives the DNA sample kit from Hyderabad-based Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics.

The court in its order said that considering the age of Tiwari, the order of taking the blood sample is required to be implemented "as expeditiously as possible otherwise an irreparable loss is bound to visit the plaintiff".

The court's directions came on the plea of 32-year-old Rohit Shekhar seeking to compel Tiwari to furnish his blood sample at the earliest to decide the four-year-old paternity suit. He has sought a judicial declaration that Tiwari is his biological father.