Indian-born women Meena Geltink, 43, and Minal Tijssen, 44, adopted separately as babies and raised near each other in the Netherlands, pose for a photo after a DNA test revealed they were biological sisters, in’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands on August 11, 2026.
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A Vietnamese father uncovered a long-buried truth after noticing his daughter’s appearance bore no resemblance to either parent, according to the South China Morning Post. A DNA test revealed he was not her biological father. This revelation led to a journey uncovering a hospital mix-up, with the truth emerging when the daughter met another girl born on the same date at a new school.

However, as Lan grew into a teenager and became increasingly beautiful, he noticed she bore no resemblance to either him or his wife. Suspicion prompted him to conduct a DNA test, which confirmed that Lan was not his biological daughter.

The revelation led him to grow distant and cold towards his wife and daughter, and he often came home drunk.One night, after getting drunk, he confronted his wife with the DNA results and accused her of infidelity, reported SCMP. However, Hong denied the allegations and eventually moved to the northern capital city of Hanoi with her daughter. The move forced Lan to transfer schools, a move that unexpectedly revealed the truth.

At a birthday party, a mother noticed Lan’s striking resemblance to herself, suspecting a hospital mix-up. DNA tests confirmed Lan and her friend were switched at birth. The families now regularly spend time together and plan to reveal the truth to the girls, with legal action remaining undecided.

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In an unexpected turn of events, a woman in northern China recently had a DNA test and found she was not genetically related to her parents, according to South China Morning Post. In an interview, the woman from Xinxiang, Henan province, with the last name Dong, disclosed that the test was triggered by her coworkers’ light-hearted remarks about her unusual looks, stating that it “did not look local.” Inspired by their comments, she began to wonder where she came from and sought clarification from her parents.

Dong asked her family members about her origins, and they gave vague, contradictory answers, including different dates of birth, as per the news portal. Her interest was piqued by her parents’ uncertainty, which is why she sought confirmation via a DNA test. Her suspicions were validated by the test results, which showed that she was not her parents’ biological daughter.

“I’ve always lived in Xinxiang, but after I started working, my colleagues would say, ‘You do not look like us at all. Your nose is wide, you have thick lips, and your eyes are bigger and deeper than ours. You do not look like someone from Henan at all,'” Dong told SCMP.

“Every night, I kept wondering, where do I really come from?” Dong reflected.

China’s internet community has exploded with support since this announcement, with many urging Dong to look for her biological parents. Since its initial coverage by Henan Broadcasting System on October 24, the story has generated a lot of interest and conversations on social media.

However, the test indicated that she likely originated from Guangxi province, located in the far southern part of China, showing no genetic connections to Henan province.

Kochi:

The Kerala high court has ruled that courts cannot allow DNA testing in all cases, but only in those matters where a strong prima facie case is made out in favour of the person who seeks the test.

“The court finds that one cannot seek DNA test to be done only in his/her attempt to fish out evidence in support of his/her case. Unless and until the applicant makes out a strong prima facie case, such an application is not liable to be allowed,” it said while allowing a petition challenging a trial court’s decision to allow a DNA test to be conducted in a property dispute.

The trial court order came on a petition filed by a woman before a trial court in 2017, staking claim to land belonging to a man who died in the 1980s on the grounds that the dead man was her father, and that he had been married to her mother before he wedded another woman. She claimed that she was born out of the man’s first marriage and hence, she and her mother were entitled to a part of his property.

This was contested by the dead man’s son, who contended that his father was never married to anyone else other than his mother. Hence to prove her parentage, she filed an application for conducting a sibling DNA test, which a magistrate’s court allowed.

The man’s son subsequently filed an original petition before the high court and after going through the facts of the entire case, it said: “It’s already held by the Hon’ble Supreme Court, the existence of a strong prima facie case is a sine qua non to seek conduct of the DNA test. Here, the plaintiff/ applicant herself admits that there exists no evidence, except the aspect sought to be proved by DNA analysis …”

“DNA analysis, even if allowed, will not establish the marriage between (the deceased man and the plaintiff’s mother). At best, it may prove that the plaintiff is the daughter (of the deceased man). The proof of the same, by itself, would not carry the plaintiff anywhere. The prayer is one for partition,” the high court said as it set aside the order allowing the conduct of a DNA test.

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