The wife of former Union minister Shashi Tharoor, Sunanda Pushkar, who was found dead on January 17, 2014 in her hotel room in Delhi, had been murdered.
Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi on Tuesday says according to the AIIMS report, Pushkar was poisoned, but whether the poison was administered orally or injected, has not been confirmed. Pushkar’s viscera has been sent abroad for testing. Her death came within 48 hours of her going public about her husband’s alleged affair with a Pakistani journalist, Mehr Tarar.It was alleged that Tharoor used her as a front to collect Rs 70 crore for helping the Kochi owners get their IPL team.
Police had also got information regarding Pushkar’s twin email accounts from Yahoo and Google with details of whom she was in touch during her last days.In the same time, Dr. Sudhir Gupta, a top doctor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) had alleged that he was pressured to give a ‘doctored report’ in Sunanda Pushkar’s death case as her death is occurred naturally.
Hope, police must do justice for her murder in soon.