Bringing the curtain down on the over six-year long paternity row, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday held that ND Tiwari is the biological father of 32-year-old Rohit Shekhar and restrained the veteran Congress leader from disowning this in public. Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw considered the DNA test result that had held 89-year-old Tiwari as biological father of Rohit on July 27, 2012 and various news reports, based on a Press conference held on March 3 this year, in which the leader had admitted that the youth is his son. “The court is of the opinion that the plaintiff has made out a case... The court issues a decree declaring the plaintiff as the natural born son of defendant 1 (Tiwari) and 2 (Ujjwala Sharma),” Justice Endlaw said.
The court also observed that since Bahar-U-Barqi, the lawyer for Tiwari, had not appeared despite being intimated by the counsel for Rohit and Ujjwala, it seemed “the defendant 1 (Tiwari) is not interested in opposing the reliefs claimed by Plaintiff (Rohit).”
It also injuncted Tiwari from denying in public that Rohit is his natural born son.
