Police to use new probe strategy in Sunanda Pushkar case

New Delhi: The Delhi police, on Thursday, told the Delhi high court that it now intends to embark upon a new mode of investigation, called forensic psychology, after having explored all other avenues in the death case of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s wife, Sunanda Pushkar.

A bench of justices GS Sistani and Chander Shekhar, which gave a go-ahead to the Delhi police to carry out the new mode of investigation, was however anguished that the investigation in the three-year-old case was still dragging on.

The police said that the probe through forensic psychology would take another eight weeks to conclude and entail the personal questioning of certain individuals.

Forensic psychology is an emerging field which forms an integral part of criminal probe, prison and profiling systems, now being used in some developed countries.

The bench said that the probe had started in 2014 and now in September 2017, the agency wants to pursue an additional and a new mode of investigation.

“Should any agency drag the probe for so long?” the court asked. It hoped there would not be any further delay in submission of the final report because Pushk-ar’s son, Shiv Menon, has moved the court as he was “extremely concerned” to know what happened.