New Delhi: The post-mortem report of Rohit Shekhar Tiwari, son of N D Tiwari, who brought dead to the Max Hospital in Saket in south Delhi on April 16, has found the death to be "unnatural".
On the basis of the findings of the autopsy report, a case has been registered under section 302 of the IPC (murder case) against unknown persons.
"The autopsy report of Rohit Shekhar Tiwari, 40, suggested that it is an unnatural death due to smothering. Other contradictions were also found," said Deputy Commissioner of Police Vijay Kumar.
"Now the case has been transferred to the Crime Branch," he said.
Rohit Shekhar Tiwari had won the paternity suit against the former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, late Narayan Dutt Tiwari. He was declared "brought dead" by the Max Hospital on Wednesday after his mother took him there in an ambulance.
The forensic and crime branch teams visited Rohit Shekhar's residence in Defence Colony to corroborate the sequence of events, including scanning CCTV footage.
"His mother, brother, wife and four servants are being questioned," the officer added.
Who is Rohit Shekhar?
Rohit Shekhar fought a paternity suit against 88-year-old Narayan Dutt Tiwari, who had held numerous cabinet posts for the Congress Party in a political career spanning six decades.
Shekhar's paternity suit had caused a sensation when it was first filed and also garnered significant media attention with it constantly finding a place in India's media landscape.
Shekhar's mother - Ujjawala Sharma, had left her husband's home with a two-year-old son, Shekhar's elder brother, in the mid-1970s. She went back to live with her father, who was Prof Sher Singh, a prominent politician.
It was then that she started seeing ND Tiwari, who was an up-and-coming politician at that time and a family friend.
After a few years of courtship, she gave birth to Shekhar, but ND Tiwari refused to lend his name to the child. Shekhar had claimed that it would have been a big blow to Tiwari's political career, as he was a married man.
Rohit Tiwari joined the BJP ahead of the 2017 Uttarakhand assembly polls and recently indicated he could join the Congress.
