Sunanda Pushkar murder case: Delhi Police to question Pakistan journalist Mehr Tarar
New Delhi: The Delhi Police is likely to interrogate Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar in the murder case of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar.
Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi said Tarar may be questioned, if required, as she may throw light in the case.
"If required, we will speak to her as she is a relevant person who can throw light in the case. Our efforts will be to talk to her," Bassi said when asked whether the SIT probing the case will examine her.
Sources in the police said that a formal request may be sent to her through "official channels" to join the investigations.
Tarar had two months back said that she was ready to answer any question on the issue. "If they want to ask me anything... If they want to ask me any question whatsoever that they think... I can answer," 46-year-old Tarar had said a day after Delhi Police had registered a murder case into Sunanda's death.
Bassi said investigators have also asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the US to complete examination of Sunanda's viscera as soon as possible. A senior police official had gone to the US to give the sample of Sunanda's viscera to the FBI.
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The investigators want to confirm the kind of poison which was found in Sunanda's body by a panel of doctors of AIIMS.
The AIIMS report could not find out the kind of poison in her body. "We had told them (FBI) to do it as early as possible. They follow certain procedures and processes. So it may take some time," Bassi said.
He said, if required, Tharoor will "definitely" be called for questioning again. He said the certain gadgets obtained by the investigators are also being examined.
The SIT probing the case has so far questioned at least 15 people, including Tharoor, his staff members, close friends of the couple and the staff of Leela Palace hotel where Pushkar was found dead.
Sunanda Pushkar was found dead at a five-star hotel in South Delhi on the night of January 17, a day after her twitter spat with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar over the latter's alleged affair with Tharoor.
