New Delhi: Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi said on Wednesday that former Union Minister and Congress Member of Parliament from Kerala Shashi Tharoor to be questioned again by Special Investigation Team (SIT). He will be questioned by SIT over the murder of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.
It has been reported that the domestic help of Tharoor, Narain Singh will be questioned by SIT on Wednesday.
Delhi Police chief Bassi said, “We have examined every statement of the witnesses in the case. Shashi Tharoor will be summoned again tomorrow; we need to obtain some clarification from him. We will inform the media if there is any new development in the case.”
Tharoor had been interrogated at the Vasant Vihar police station in South Delhi earlier in January. He was asked over 50 questions by a team of four officers in the first of three likely rounds of interrogation.
The police then said that based on available evidence, Sunanda Pushkar, 51, was poisoned. A case of murder was registered on January 6.
Notify that Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in the five-star Leela Hotel in Delhi on January 17, 2014.
She was married to Tharoor for a little less than four years. It was the third marriage for both. Before her death, Pushkar had publicly accused Tharoor of having an affair with a Pakistani journalist, Mehr Tarar.
Initially, her death was debated as a possible suicide for months, and it was only this month, that a murder theory began to be considered seriously after doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) maintained that her demise was unnatural.
Bureau Report
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