Sumit Kumar Singh | Mail Today | New Delhi, February 25, 2014 | UPDATED 14:16 IST
Sunanda Pushkar
Sunanda Pushkar
The death of Union minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar is still shrouded in mystery with the investigators still probing whether it was a case of murder or suicide. Though the police said they haven't yet ruled out the murder angle, they said none of Sunanda's family members have come forward with any complaints against Tharoor.
"She consumed poison/medicines or was injected poison or was forcefully given some medicines is still a matter of probe," said a Delhi Police top officer. The officer added that they can't say anything concrete as to how she was poisoned as they are still waiting for the forensic and viscera reports.
Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi said the police were carrying out necessary inquiries. "The outcome will soon be submitted to the concerned quarters," the commissioner said on Monday.
Sunanda was found dead in a suite in Leela Palace hotel in Chanakyapuri area in Delhi. Two staff members and Tharoor himself were present in the suite when they found her body.
Investigators said Sunanda's last call from her mobile phone was to her son Shiv Menon. The investigators have also verified the call detail record of her phone and have questioned all the people who spoke to her during the last two days of her life. Police said they have found from the call records that she also spoke to Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar.
Sources close to the case developments told Mail Today: "Delhi Police have got in touch with Tharoor after the first questioning during recording his statement. This is contrary to what is being speculated in a section of media that he's being quizzed by the police in the case…Police are probing on their own."
Regarding allegations being levelled against Tharoor by senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy, a source told Mail Today, "It is best to ignore his despicable attempts."
The investigators said undoubtedly there were several injury marks across Sunanda's body and it was because of a physical fight with her husband. "They had got into a fight," said an investigator adding that the fight was over Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar whom Sunanda had suspected of having an affair with her husband.
The post-mortem report also stated that there were over a dozen of injury marks across Sunanda's body but there were superficial in nature and not severe. The report also said Sunanda had minor bruises on her left cheek.
The post-mortem report also indicated that she died of poisoning. However, the police would be able to know the nature of the poison found in her body only after receiving the viscera report.
"It is too early to conclude anything as of now since the south district police is investigating all angles in this murder mystery," said a senior police officer, requesting anonymity.
The officer said Sunanda had starved herself for two days and was also consuming alcohol during her stay at the posh hotel. Revelations The autopsy report also stated that no food samples were found in her stomach, indicating that she hadn't eaten anything in the last two days. A panel of three AIIMS doctors also suggested that she had not been eating.
The sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) who recorded statements in the 'mysterious death' case had also ordered the Delhi police to investigate whether it was a case of homicide, suicide or accident.
"I have ordered the Delhi Police to further probe the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar as she is found to have died due to poisoning," Alok Sharma, the SDM of Vasant Vihar, said.
The police said three empty strips of Alprax (0.5mg) medicine, apart from other medicines, including botox antiaging injections, was found in her hotel room.
Swamy claims Sunanda given 'russian poison'
Giving a fresh twist to the Sunanda Pushkar case, senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Monday claimed the wife of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor did not commit suicide and her death was a gruesome murder.
Subramanian Swamy
Subramanian Swamy
Swamy questioned Tharoor nervousness regarding his wife's death, even as the Delhi Police investigation in the highprofile case is still not complete. Sunanda was found dead in a posh Delhi hotel days after she was locked in a bitter Twitter row with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar.
"Why is Shashi Tharoor feeling so nervous? He should be one who should be standing up and say I want a complete inquiry to be done. Why did he get rushed through the cremation of his wife within a day? This is ridiculous. There are many things which are wrong with it," Swamy said, adding that Sunanda had horrific injuries above her belly and "her nostrils were squeezed to open her mouth to administer Russian poison."
Interestingly, this is not the first time that Swamy has spoken on Sunanda's private life. Earlier, Swamy had alleged that the Union Minister had misused his office to get his son out of prison in the UAE.
"What prompted a Union minister from Kerala to use his office to get his son out of jail in UAE? Due to narcotic trafficking charges," Swamy had tweeted in the first week of January this year. Tharoor had responded to Swamy's charges, saying the allegations were "a bigot's perverse political agenda".
The Delhi Police, on its part, has flatly rejected Swamy's claim that he had got the details about Sunanda's death through his "sources in Delhi Police''. "I can't comment on what grounds Mr Swamy is making these allegations when the probe is not yet complete,'' a Delhi Police officer said.
Shashi Tharoor(left) and Sunanda Pushkar
Shashi Tharoor(left) and wife Sunanda Pushkar.
Swamy claimed Tharoor wants to make his wife's death seems like a natural death but the post-mortem reports stated that it was unnatural death. "Why is Tharoor so keen to declare the case as death due to natural causes? We want to get to the bottom of the matter. What is the need to have no photos taken of her body? Whatever photos were taken was destroyed. The Delhi police probe is not moving forward.
Police sources told me in private that it is a gruesome murder," he claimed. The BJP leader also gave indication that when his party-led NDA comes to power at the Centre, he will "take the case to its conclusion.'' "I will have to file either a public interest litigation, or when there is a government that is more responsive to the public like Narendra Modi's government. At that time, I will take it up and see that it (the case) is brought to a conclusion," he said.
Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/sunanda-pushkar-death-shashi-tharoor-subramanian-swamy/1/345393.html
Sunanda Pushkar
Sunanda Pushkar
The death of Union minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar is still shrouded in mystery with the investigators still probing whether it was a case of murder or suicide. Though the police said they haven't yet ruled out the murder angle, they said none of Sunanda's family members have come forward with any complaints against Tharoor.
"She consumed poison/medicines or was injected poison or was forcefully given some medicines is still a matter of probe," said a Delhi Police top officer. The officer added that they can't say anything concrete as to how she was poisoned as they are still waiting for the forensic and viscera reports.
Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi said the police were carrying out necessary inquiries. "The outcome will soon be submitted to the concerned quarters," the commissioner said on Monday.
Sunanda was found dead in a suite in Leela Palace hotel in Chanakyapuri area in Delhi. Two staff members and Tharoor himself were present in the suite when they found her body.
Investigators said Sunanda's last call from her mobile phone was to her son Shiv Menon. The investigators have also verified the call detail record of her phone and have questioned all the people who spoke to her during the last two days of her life. Police said they have found from the call records that she also spoke to Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar.
Sources close to the case developments told Mail Today: "Delhi Police have got in touch with Tharoor after the first questioning during recording his statement. This is contrary to what is being speculated in a section of media that he's being quizzed by the police in the case…Police are probing on their own."
Regarding allegations being levelled against Tharoor by senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy, a source told Mail Today, "It is best to ignore his despicable attempts."
The investigators said undoubtedly there were several injury marks across Sunanda's body and it was because of a physical fight with her husband. "They had got into a fight," said an investigator adding that the fight was over Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar whom Sunanda had suspected of having an affair with her husband.
The post-mortem report also stated that there were over a dozen of injury marks across Sunanda's body but there were superficial in nature and not severe. The report also said Sunanda had minor bruises on her left cheek.
The post-mortem report also indicated that she died of poisoning. However, the police would be able to know the nature of the poison found in her body only after receiving the viscera report.
"It is too early to conclude anything as of now since the south district police is investigating all angles in this murder mystery," said a senior police officer, requesting anonymity.
The officer said Sunanda had starved herself for two days and was also consuming alcohol during her stay at the posh hotel. Revelations The autopsy report also stated that no food samples were found in her stomach, indicating that she hadn't eaten anything in the last two days. A panel of three AIIMS doctors also suggested that she had not been eating.
The sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) who recorded statements in the 'mysterious death' case had also ordered the Delhi police to investigate whether it was a case of homicide, suicide or accident.
"I have ordered the Delhi Police to further probe the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar as she is found to have died due to poisoning," Alok Sharma, the SDM of Vasant Vihar, said.
The police said three empty strips of Alprax (0.5mg) medicine, apart from other medicines, including botox antiaging injections, was found in her hotel room.
Swamy claims Sunanda given 'russian poison'
Giving a fresh twist to the Sunanda Pushkar case, senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Monday claimed the wife of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor did not commit suicide and her death was a gruesome murder.
Subramanian Swamy
Subramanian Swamy
Swamy questioned Tharoor nervousness regarding his wife's death, even as the Delhi Police investigation in the highprofile case is still not complete. Sunanda was found dead in a posh Delhi hotel days after she was locked in a bitter Twitter row with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar.
"Why is Shashi Tharoor feeling so nervous? He should be one who should be standing up and say I want a complete inquiry to be done. Why did he get rushed through the cremation of his wife within a day? This is ridiculous. There are many things which are wrong with it," Swamy said, adding that Sunanda had horrific injuries above her belly and "her nostrils were squeezed to open her mouth to administer Russian poison."
Interestingly, this is not the first time that Swamy has spoken on Sunanda's private life. Earlier, Swamy had alleged that the Union Minister had misused his office to get his son out of prison in the UAE.
"What prompted a Union minister from Kerala to use his office to get his son out of jail in UAE? Due to narcotic trafficking charges," Swamy had tweeted in the first week of January this year. Tharoor had responded to Swamy's charges, saying the allegations were "a bigot's perverse political agenda".
The Delhi Police, on its part, has flatly rejected Swamy's claim that he had got the details about Sunanda's death through his "sources in Delhi Police''. "I can't comment on what grounds Mr Swamy is making these allegations when the probe is not yet complete,'' a Delhi Police officer said.
Shashi Tharoor(left) and Sunanda Pushkar
Shashi Tharoor(left) and wife Sunanda Pushkar.
Swamy claimed Tharoor wants to make his wife's death seems like a natural death but the post-mortem reports stated that it was unnatural death. "Why is Tharoor so keen to declare the case as death due to natural causes? We want to get to the bottom of the matter. What is the need to have no photos taken of her body? Whatever photos were taken was destroyed. The Delhi police probe is not moving forward.
Police sources told me in private that it is a gruesome murder," he claimed. The BJP leader also gave indication that when his party-led NDA comes to power at the Centre, he will "take the case to its conclusion.'' "I will have to file either a public interest litigation, or when there is a government that is more responsive to the public like Narendra Modi's government. At that time, I will take it up and see that it (the case) is brought to a conclusion," he said.
Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/sunanda-pushkar-death-shashi-tharoor-subramanian-swamy/1/345393.html
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