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crimes

• Deadly night Rohit was smothered to death on
the intervening night of April 15 and 16

wife Apoorva, mother Ujjwala, cous- vestigate this part of the allegation. Till three-time Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister,
in Rajeev, and half-brother Sidharth. then the mystery over the real reasons Uttarakhand Chief Minister and Con-
During questioning, Apoorva was behind the gruesome murder that is gress leader N D Tiwari and Dr. Ujjwala
asked about her relationship with her shrouded in mystery would continue. Tiwari, a former Sanskrit lecturer.
husband. It was found that Apoorva and There are questions galore which spe- ND Tiwari had refused to give his
Rohit often slept in different rooms. cial investigation team of Crime Branch blood sample for a DNA test in 2012 but
Mother Ujjwala said the couple’s re- of Delhi Police is yet groping over. The relented later. In 2014, the Delhi High
lationship had become strained just a fact that Rohit wanted to continue Court declared that ND Tiwari was Rohit
few days after their marriage in 2018. with the legacy and politics of his late Shekhar’s biological father. In 2012, the
However, Apoorva’s father Padmaja father would also baffle police as his Supreme Court directed Tiwari to sub-
Shukla, countered that argument and career has been cut short because of mit his blood for a DNA test, which es-
said that there was no marital discord this murder. tablished him as his biological father. In
between the two. Ujjwala also said Rohit Shekhar Tiwari was involved in 2014, Tiwari publicly acknowledged and
that Rohit was upset about his politi- a six-year-long public and long-drawn accepted Shekhar as his son. The same
cal career not taking off. According to battle to prove that late Uttar Pradesh year, ND Tiwari, aged 88, married Rohit
his mother, there was a property angle chief minister N D Tiwari was his fa- Shekhar Tiwari’s mother and died on his
to the murder too as Apoorva, alleg- ther. Shekhar had done LLB from Delhi 93rd birthday.
edly wanted to take control of proper- University’s Faculty of Law. Shekhar,
ties. However, the police are yet to in- 40, was born on February 15, 1979, to letters@tehelka.com

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