N D TIWARI Resigns After Sting Operation.

N D Tiwari today resigned as Andhra Pradesh Governor in the wake of a raging controversy after a sting operation purportedly showed him in a compromising position with three women.

86-year-old Tiwari, a former chief minister of undivided Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, sent his resignation to President Pratibha Patil on"health grounds", said a press communique from the Raj Bhavan.

The resignation came a day after Telugu television channel'ABN Andhra Jyothi' aired a footage captured in a sting operation of an elderly man with three women in Raj Bhavan in a compromising position, which the channel said was of Tiwari.

The Raj Bhavan denied it and promptly approached the High Court yesterday and got a restraint order on the channel from telecasting the footage.