New Delhi: Four years after Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in suite number 345 of the Leela Palace Hotel in New Delhi’s Chanakyapuri, the Delhi police on Monday accused her husband, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, of abetting her suicide, and told a city court that his custodial interrogation was necessary as the investigation was yet to be concluded.
He tweeted: “It does not speak well of the methods or motivations of the Delhi Police. In Oct 17, the law officer made a statement in the Delhi HC that they have not found anything against anyone & now in 6 months they say that I have abetted a suicide. Unbelievable!” The couple’s domestic servant Narayan Singh is one of the witnesses in the case.
Mr Tharoor has been charged under Sections 498A (husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty) and 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code. The couple had entered wedlock on August 22, 2010. The suite in which Sunanda’s body was found was sealed on the night of January 17, 2014 itself.
