Police claimed that Ravindra Singh, father of one of the accused 21-year-old Sarthak Singh tampered with the evidence by washing the SUV involved in the incident and hiding the vehicle.
The boy's mother, Shweta Srivastava, is an additional superintendent of police (ASP) posted at the Special Investigation Team (SIT) unit of the Uttar Pradesh police. Naimish was the only child of Shweta and her husband, Abhinav Srivastava.