New Delhi: Family of Sunanda Pushkar had demanded for CBI probe in death of Sunanda Pushkar and claimed her death unnatural. Sunanda Pushkar was wife of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor.
On Thursday, her latest post-mortem report, submitted to AIIMS, was leaked, which claimed that Sunanda died due to “poisoning”.
Now her family on Friday said that it knew her death was planned and unnatural.
Cousin of Sunanda, Ashok Kumar said that the family knew it wasn’t a natural death, but was planned.
Ashok had also raised the question over Tharoor and asked why the Congress leader would go out for a meeting when his wife was unwell. Even cameras weren’t working, Kumar pointed out.
Kumar demanded for a CBI probe into the incident to seek justice for Pushkar.
The revelation about the autopsy report came around 10 days after the post-mortem report of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) was submitted to the Delhi Police by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
Notify that Pushkar was found dead in a mysterious condition in her room at a five-star hotel in south Delhi on January 17.
The leaked report said that the AIIMS medical board “had thoroughly pursued the various documents that were submitted to them by the investigating officers along with the post-mortem report and histopathology report of viscera after which it was concluded the cause of Pushkar’s death is poisoning”.
It said, “Viscera are positive for ethyl alcohol, caffeine, acetaminophen and cotinine.”
The report also revealed that the medical report reserved comment on the specific poison or chemical responsible since there was a lot of limitations on the viscera report.
The report states that “The duration of injuries have been opined already. However, the reasons of these physical injuries, circumstantial evidences and statements have not been submitted by the investigative officer.”
Spokesperson of Delhi Police Rajan Bhagat said, “Under Section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the inquest proceeding in the Sunanda Pushkar case is still pending and we didn’t add anything in it.”
Bureau Report
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