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Shashi Tharoor leaves Twitter for a while after chargesheet on Sunanda names him

Shashi Tharoor leaves Twitter for a while after chargesheet on Sunanda names him

| @indiablooms | 14 May 2018, 11:23 pm

New Delhi, May 14 (IBNS): Former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor on Monday announced that he is taking a break from Twitter for a while after the chargesheet filed by the Delhi police named him in the mysterious death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.

Earlier in the day the Congress leader said that he will 'contest vigorously' against the chargesheet filed by the Delhi police against him in connection with the mysterious death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.

Causing trouble for Tharoor, the Delhi  police on Monday filed the chargesheet in connection with the mysterious death of his wife, Sunanda Pushkar, naming him as an abetter.

The chargesheet was submitted before Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmender Singh  more than four years after Pushkar was found dead in a five star hospital in Delhi.

News 18 report said the chargesheet  concluded that Pushkar killed herself and hence no one has been charged with murder.

However,  the chargesheet under sections 498 A (husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty) and 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code implicated tharoor for abetment.

Tharoor is mentioned in the second column as a suspect.

Pushkar was found dead in a luxury hotel room on January 17, 2014, days after being embroiled in a Twitter war with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar over the latter’s alleged closeness with Tharoor.

The initial post mortem said her death was due to poisoning. While traces of Alzolam was found in he body and a strip of the sleeping pills found in her room, the actual poison couldn't be confirmed.

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