ND Tiwari with son Rohit Shekhar. (File Photo)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.
In a statement, the Max hospital said that they received the emergency call at 04.41 pm and an Ambulance ferried Shekhar to the hospital, who was declared “brought dead”. 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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“What is important is that the Rohit Shekhar vs N D Tiwari case has set a precedent. It has told the patriarchs that you can’t just get away with anything. All I want to do now is to put this behind me, wake up fresh in the morning, do my pranayam and practise my music,” Shekhar had said after the acceptance.
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