Wife of Rohit Shekhar Tiwari, son of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister ND Tiwari has been arrested by police for murdering him. Apoorva Shukla Tiwari was questioned for three days after Rohit was murdered, who died allegedly suffocated with a pillow on April 16. “We have arrested Apoorva with the help of scientific evidence and FSL (forensic) report. She confessed that she has murdered her husband and cited unhappy marriage as the reason,” senior police officer Rajiv Ranjan told IANS.
“She entered Rohit’s room on April 16 and executed the crime. She later destroyed the evidences. All this happened within one-and-half hours,” he said, adding that she initially tried to mislead the Crime Branch team which arrested her.
Earlier police said that Rohit was murdered and pillow has been used to kill him. Rohit was 40 and earlier it was said that he died due to cardiac arrest. He had gone to Uttarakhand to vote on April 12 and had returned to Delhi on the night of April 15. He could be seen on one of the CCTVs in his Defence Colony home, taking support of the wall as he walked, apparently drunk.
However, next day Rohit’s mother Ujjwala Tiwari was at Max Hospital for a treatment and she received a call that Rohit was unwell and bleeding from his nose. She then took an ambulance that brought Rohit to the hospital.
At that time of the phone call, Rohit Tiwari’s wife Apoorva, his cousin Siddharth and domestic helps were at home, the police said. Rohit Shekhar was declared dead in hospital. He had fought a six-year-long battle in court to prove that he was the son of ND Tiwari, a veteran Congress leader who was chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
