Wife Of ND Tiwari's Son Killed Him, Erased Proof, All In 90 Minutes: Cops

Wife Of ND Tiwari's Son Killed Him, Erased Proof, All In 90 Minutes: Cops
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Rohit Tiwari, the son of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister ND Tiwari, was earlier said to have died of a cardiac arrest.
All India | Edited by Nonika Marwaha (with inputs from IANS) | Updated: April 24, 2019 12:57 IST
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Delhi Police had interrogated Rohit Shekhar Tiwari's wife Apoorva at her residence for 3 consecutive days


NEW DELHI: The wife of Rohit Shekhar Tiwari, the son of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister ND Tiwari, has been arrested for his murder. Apoorva Shukla Tiwari was questioned for three days as the police investigated the death of Rohit Shekhar, who was 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.

Last week, the police said he was murdered and a pillow may have been used to smother him.

Rohit Tiwari, 40, was earlier said to have died of a 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.

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Rohit Shekhar, son of ND Tiwari, was brought to a hospital, where he died (File)

The next day, Rohit's mother Ujjwala Tiwari was at the Max Hospital for treatment when she received a call from home that he 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.

ND Tiwari had refused to give his blood sample for a DNA test in 2012 but relented later. In 2014, the Delhi High Court declared that ND Tiwari was Rohit Shekhar's biological father.

The same year, ND Tiwari, aged 88, married Rohit Shekhar Tiwari's mother. The senior leader died last year on his 93rd birthday.

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Rohit's mother reportedly told the police that her daughter-in-law Apoorva and her family wanted to seize his property.

Genetic isolation, endogamy cause of infertility in Indian men: CCMB

Genetic isolation, endogamy cause of infertility in Indian men: CCMB

Several factors are known to cause male infertility including complete absence of sperm, low sperm production and motility, blockages that prevent sperm delivery due to illnesses and injuries. Genetic factors also play a major role.

By PTI |Ahmedabad/hyderabad |

Updated: April 22, 2019 5:11:09 pm

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According to CCMB scientists, genetic isolation and endogamy, which is widespread in Indian populations, can play a major role in introducing novel causal variations. (Source: File Photo)

Genetic isolation and endogamy, which is widespread among the Indian population, could be a major cause of infertility in the country’s men, a study by the city-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) said. According to CCMB, approximately one out of every seven couples is infertile worldwide, of which the male factors account for about 50 per cent of the cases.

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Several factors are known to cause male infertility including complete absence of sperm, low sperm production andmotility, blockages that prevent sperm delivery due to illnesses and injuries, chronic health problems, lifestyle choices while genetic factors play a major role in most of these cases.

A team of scientists at CCMB led by Chief Scientist K Thangaraj has been studying the genetic causes of male infertility for the last two decades, a release from the Centre said. “Y chromosome consists of several genes that are responsible for production of sperms, i.e. spermatogenesis. Deletions of such genes are the most common causes of severe diseases of testes and spermatogenic defects leading to male infertility. We have earlier identified that the large deletion of Y chromosome, which consists of several genes, is responsible for male infertility in 8.5 per cent of the cases,” Thangaraj noted.

“In the present study, we have studied the micro to macro deletions on the Y chromosome and the molecular mechanisms behind the deletion events,” said Thangaraj, who is the senior author of the finding, which was published online on April 18 in ‘Scientific Reports.’

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According to CCMB scientists, the study, conducted recently, highlights that genetic isolation and endogamy, which is widespread in Indian populations, can play a major role in introducing novel causal variations. “Hence, the authors undertook the study and found various deletion events of AFZ regions on the Y chromosome in the diverse Indian population and their association with male infertility,” the release said. AZoospermia Factor (AZF) regions consist of three genetic domains in the long arm of the human Y chromosome referred to as AZFa, AZFb and AZFc, and they are home to genes required for spermatogenesis.

Thangaraj further said these findings have potential applications in the infertility clinic. “The sperm carrying Y chromosome deletion often leads to failure in assisted reproduction. So, it can be worthwhile to check for the deletion to screen infertile men prior to adapting any assisted reproductive methods,” he added.