Delhi Police on Thursday submitted a chargesheet in Rohit Shekhar Tiwari’s murder case at the Saket Court. His wife Apoorva Shukla was arrested in the case and is in judicial custody.
A senior police officer said that the 518-page chargesheet has statements from 56 witnesses, including family members, employees of the house, police officers and other officials.
Rohit Shekhar Tiwari, son of former U.P. and Uttarakhand Chief Minister N.D. Tiwari, was found dead in his room on the afternoon of April 16 by his house help. The case initially handled by district police was transferred to the Crime Branch and the post-mortem report stated that he had been strangulated to death after which a murder case was registered.
Arrested on April 24
After sustained interrogation, Apoorva was arrested on April 24.
The officer said that in the chargesheet, they have mentioned the sequence of events that led to Rohit’s murder. Apoorva allegedly came to Rohit’s room around 1 a.m. on April 16 and confronted him about his relationship with his sister-in-law. “He had gone to Uttarakhand to cast his vote along with his mother, cousin brother and sister-in-law. He had denied to take Apoorva along with them and returned after five days against the initial plan of two days. While they were returning home, Apoorva had made a video call to Rohit to ask him what he wanted to have for dinner. During the course of the video call, she might have seen the woman relative in the car.”
At night when the two were together, Rohit mentioned that he and the sister-in-law were drinking from the same glass which agitated her. “Apoorva strangulated him before smothering him with a pillow. While she initially claimed it to be an accident, we have strong evidence that it was a murder,” the officer said.
