Sunanda Pushkar death case : Police files chargesheet naming Sashi Tharoor as abeter
New Delhi, May 14 (IBNS) : Causing upset for prominent Congress leader Sashi Tharoor, the Delhi police on Monday filed the chargesheet in connection with the mysterious death of his wife, Sunanda Patnaik, naming him as an abetter, media reports said.
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 says 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 implicates 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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