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Manama: The remains of a Bahraini man, who died in 2006, will be exhumed for paternity test in the first of its kind legal verdict here, a lawyer said on Tuesday.
The Higher Shariah Court (Shiite Directorate), chaired by Judge Shaikh Nasser Al Asfoor, early this week ordered the exhumation after finalising the formalities. The judge also ordered a DNA test to be carried out by the Forensic Science Department, Abdullah Al Shamlawi, a lawyer in the case, told Gulf News 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.
"The main problem is that the marriage contract wasn't registered with the authority, so according to official papers, the man never got married to a second woman nor had a baby," he said. The problem got aggravated when the family refused to acknowledge the boy.
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," he said. "The family of the deceased objected the verdict and said it was disrespectful to the dead, while in my opinion the verdict is the only solution as the boy is with no official papers or identification documents."
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