The remains of a Bahraini man, who died two years ago, will be exhumed for paternity test, a lawyer has revealed.
The Higher Shariah Court (Shiite Directorate), chaired by Judge Shaikh Nasser Al Asfoor, ordered the exhumation and a DNA test to be carried out by the Forensic Science Department, Abdullah Al Shamlawi, a lawyer in the case, told UAE daily Gulf News’ website on Tuesday.
In 2004, the man married a woman without telling his children from the first marriage and had a baby boy from her. When he died two years later his family refused to accept that the boy was his baby.
Al Shamlawi has been defending the woman and her baby to be acknowledged officially as the wife and son of the deceased.
“This is the first case ever where a judge in Bahrain ordered the exhumation of a dead man and that shows the impartiality of the judiciary system,” he said.
“If the paternity test proved positive then the boy will be officially a member in the family with all rights.”
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