Sunanda Pushkar’s husband and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday reached the capital city and is likely to be quizzed by investigators in connection with his wife murder case.
Sunanda Pushkar’s husband and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday reached the capital city and is likely to be quizzed by investigators in connection with his wife murder case. The former Union minister also asserted that it was his duty to cooperate in the probe.
Mr Tharoor arrived at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport from Kerala at about 2 pm and went to his house in central Delhi’s Lodhi Estate. Speaking to reporters, he said that he had already spoken about the development about case to media in Kerala and added: “It is my duty to cooperate with the police investigation and not to undermine the probe in any way.”
Policemen have been deployed outside his residence to avoid any untoward incident, police said. Mr Tharoor was undergoing ayurvedic rejuvenation in Thrissur district of Kerala.
The Delhi police had on Tuesday registered a case of murder in connection with Sunanda’s death under Section 302 of IPC on the basis of an AIIMS medical report that concluded that her death was unnatural and due to poisoning.
Senior Delhi police officials had on Saturday said that they were not going to question Mr Tharoor for now as they first want to examine all other people related to the case and look into the available evidence.
Investigators had also said that they had not come across any IPL cricket league angle in the case so far in the wake of some media reports suggesting it.
Sunanda was found dead in a 5-star hotel in South Delhi on the night of January 17 last, a day after her spat with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar on microblogging site Twitter over an alleged affair with Mr Tharoor.
Initially, the Special Investigative Team formed in the case wanted to question Mr Tharoor straight away and a notice asking him to join the probe was also prepared but it was not dispatched at the last moment as the police top brass decided to question everybody else before examining him. Mr Tharoor, on Saturday, had said he will extend full cooperation in a “fair” investigation and demanded a professional police probe without any political pressure or consideration and pre-determined outcome.
