New Delhi: A trial court in Delhi on Tuesday summoned Congress MP Shashi Tharoor as an accused in the case related to his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death, saying there was sufficient ground to proceed against him. He has been asked to appear before the court on July 7.
Mr Tharoor, a Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram and a former Union minister, is the only person named as an accused in the Delhi Police's chargesheet that runs into more than 3,000 pages. The chargesheet, submitted to the court on May 14, alleges that he subjected Sunanda Pushkar to mental as well as physical cruelty that drove her to commit suicide.
The couple's domestic servant, Narayan Singh, haA trial court in Delhi on Tuesday summoned Congress MP Shashi Tharoor as an accused in the case related to his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death, saying there was sufficient ground to proceed against him. He has been asked to appear before the court on July 7. Mr Tharoor, a Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram and a former Union minister, is the only person named as an accused in the Delhi Police’s chargesheet that runs into more than 3,000 pages. The chargesheet, submitted to the court on May 14, alleges that he subjected Sunanda Pushkar to mental as well as physical cruelty that drove her to commit suicide.
The couple’s domestic servant, Narayan Singh, has been named as one of the key witnesses in the case. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Samar Vishal, taking cognisance of charges of alleged abetment of suicide and committing cruelty, said, “I have heard the prosecutor. I have gone through and perused the chargesheet and the documents filed along with it. On the basis of police report (chargesheet), I take cognisance of offence of abetment of suicide of late Sunanda Pushkar and committing cruelty upon her by Dr Shashi Tharoor. There exists sufficient grounds to proceed against Tharoor for commission of offences of Section 306 and 498 A of IPC. Issue summons to him for appearance for July 7.”
Reacting to the summons, Mr Tharoor issued a statement via his Twitter account. He called the charges against him “preposterous and baseless”, and a “product of a vindictive campaign” against him.
