The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

The DNA test carried out on the much-talked-about minor septuplets of ex-DIG of Police Anisur Rahman, shows no genetic similarities among the children and their purported father, according to medical report.

Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) authorities yesterday submitted the DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) test report before a High Court Division Bench in compliance with its earlier order.

On August 6, the High Court asked Dhaka Medical College authorities to carry out the test at its DNA Lab under the supervision of the Supreme

Court authorities upon separate petitions filed by Bangladesh National Lawyers Association (BNWLA) and Bangladesh Society for Enforcement of Human Rights (BSEHR) in 2006.

As the court resumed yesterday, BSEHR Executive Director Advocate Alena Khan put forward the report before the court of Justice Syed Mahmud

Hossain and Justice Farid Ahmed. She also read out the findings laid down in the test report that revealed no genetic similarity among the seven babies aged about three and a half years.

After accepting the report, the HC set today for order on a public-interest litigation writ petition filed by BNWLA that sought custody of the seven infants, airing doubt about the parenthood of the children and apprehending a racket for trafficking them out.

The former DIG, Anisur Rahman, and his wife have been claiming that the seven kids were "septuplets".