{"id":311607,"date":"2019-04-24T07:11:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T07:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311607"},"modified":"2019-04-24T07:11:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T07:11:55","slug":"wife-of-rohit-shekhar-arrested-days-after-his-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/wife-of-rohit-shekhar-arrested-days-after-his-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Wife of Rohit Shekhar arrested days after his murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-311609 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/apoorva-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/apoorva-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/apoorva.jpg 484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The wife of Rohit Shekhar Tiwari, Apoorva Shukla was arrested for his murder, police said on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Apoorva was questioned for three days as the police investigated the death of Rohit Shekhar, the son of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister ND Tiwari.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Last week, the police said he was killed by being smothered with a pillow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shekhar\u2019s wife Apoorva and his cousin Siddharth were at home, along with domestic helps at the time of his death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rohit Shekhar Tiwari fought a long battle in court to prove that he was ND Tiwari\u2019s son. A DNA test confirmed and in 2014, the Delhi High Court declared ND Tiwari as his biological father.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wife of Rohit Shekhar Tiwari, Apoorva Shukla was arrested for his murder, police said on Wednesday. Apoorva was questioned for three days as the police investigated the death of Rohit Shekhar, the son of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister ND Tiwari. Last week, the police said he was killed by being smothered with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[11288,11277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311610,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311607\/revisions\/311610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}