Rohit Shekhar, son of late UP CM N D Tiwari, dies

Rohit Shekhar, son of late Uttarakhand chief minister N D Tiwari, died on Tuesday in New Delhi, police said. Shekhar, who fought and won a long drawn paternity suit against his father, was brought dead at Max hospital in Saket, DCP South Vijay Kumar confirmed.


Rohit Shekhar, son of late Uttarakhand chief minister N D Tiwari, died on Tuesday in New Delhi, police said. Shekhar, who fought and won a long drawn paternity suit against his father, was brought dead at Max hospital in Saket, DCP South Vijay Kumar confirmed.

However, the cause of his death is yet to be ascertained. Shekhar was a resident of Defence Colony in Delhi.

After years of denial, Tiwari publicly accepted then 35-year-old Shekhar as his son in 2014. Shekhar had filed a paternity suit against Tiwari in Delhi High Court in September 2007. A DNA test ordered by the court has established Tiwari as Shekhar’s biological father.

On May 29, 2013, Tiwari had given his blood sample for a DNA test at his residence in Dehradun following a Supreme Court’s order after contesting against undergoing the test on several grounds repeatedly.

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