While the Congress has apparently ruled out any move to ask Mr Shashi Tharoor to resign, party spokesperson Randeep Surjewala attacked the BJP, saying the ruling party had launched a campaign of misin
While the Congress has apparently ruled out any move to ask Mr Shashi Tharoor to resign, party spokesperson Randeep Surjewala attacked the BJP, saying the ruling party had launched a campaign of misinformation against Mr Tharoor. “There is a sustained misinformation campaign based on insinuation and innuendoes in which a certain section of the leadership of the BJP is also involved,” Mr Surjewala said.
With the Delhi elections coming, the BJP could use this case as one of its election planks, sources said.
Meanwhile, the special investigating team probing the case is puzzled by the statement of Dr Rajat Mohan, the doctor at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital who was called in to attend her at the hotel where she was found dead. According to his statement, he had told the caller “he will be able to come after his OPD hours”. What SIT sleuths are looking at is why anyone present with Sunanda on the night of her death did not take her to the nearest hospital if she was so sick.
Delhi police commissioner B.S. Bassi on Friday said: “I know that he (Tharoor) has come to Delhi. Our investigation is on and it is possible in the next few days, whenever the SIT will find it appropriate, they will question him.” When asked about media reports that the evidence in the hotel room where Sunanda was found dead on January 17 last year was tampered with, Mr Bassi said: “There is no basis to these allegations.” The police chief also did not rule out questioning Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar and said if the SIT finds anything relevant, “that will not be ignored”. Sunanda, 51, was found dead in a suite at a five-star hotel in South Delhi on the night of January 17, 2014, a day after her spat with Tarar on Twitter over her alleged affair with Mr Tharoor. On whether the police was looking at the IPL cricket league angle to the case, the police chief said: “When you are looking into a case, you always look into the circumstances, background and anything which can throw light on the case. We always look into those aspects. Whatever will be required will be done by the SIT.”
When asked about allegations of a delay in conducting the probe, Mr Bassi said, “We are lucky that whatever we do, we have to be transparent because our work is examined by the prosecution, judicial officers of the court and the defence. So we cannot afford to go wrong.”
Asked about the latest email Mr Tharoor had sent him after an FIR was registered in the case, an email in which the Congress MP has posed some questions to the police, Mr Bassi said he has not replied to that email so far. “Everybody has the right to express his views. We have to ensure that we do things on merit, and, sooner (rather) than later, we try to complete the probe,” he added.
