Sunanda's body had injury marks, death unnatural: Doctor

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New Delhi, Jan 18 (IANS): Union Minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar, who died Friday night, had "injury marks" on her body and it is a "case of unnatural, sudden death", one of the doctors who conducted the autopsy said.

"On post mortem examination we can say that it is a case of unnatural sudden death. There were certain injury marks on the body but we can't divulge details at this point," said Sudhir Kumar Gupta, a doctor.

"We will conclude our report and opinion in a couple of days," he added.

Sunanda Pushkar was found dead under mysterious circumstances in her room at The Leela Palace hotel in south Delhi Friday.

Her death came barely 24 hours after she and Shashi Tharoor declared they were "happily married" following public airing of tweets that hinted at an extra-marital relationship and alleged involvement of a Pakistani woman

Sunanda wasn't suffering from grave illness: Doctor

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 18 (IANS): Union Minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar, who was found dead in a Delhi hotel, was not suffering from any grave illness, a doctor who treated her here said Saturday.

Doctors led by G. Vijayaraghavan told reporters Saturday that all the details of Pushkar's illness were given to them.

"As is the practise, we are unable to share the details of her illness with the media," said Vijayaraghavan.

To a question, he said that she, however, did not have any grave illness.

Sunanda Pushkar was found dead under mysterious circumstances in her room at The Leela Palace hotel in south Delhi Friday.

Her death came barely 24 hours after the two declared they were "happily married" following public airing of tweets that hinted at an extra-marital relationship and alleged involvement of a Pakistani woman.

When Sunanda Pushkar was admitted, the Tharoors' looked cheerful and happy, said an official.

E.M. Najeeb, executive director of KIMS Hospital, where she was admitted Jan 12, told IANS that he met the two on numerous occasions in the three days that she was in hospital.

"On 12th night, their friend from Delhi was staying with her at the hospital and the next day Tharoor spent the night with her. On the 14th, she was discharged and doctors had asked her to come back later," said Najeeb.

Earlier Report: Jan 17

Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar found dead in hotel

New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS): Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Minister of State Shashi Tharoor, was found dead in a luxury hotel here Friday night, just a day after they claimed they were "happily married" despite an ugly public row.

Police sources told IANS that Pushkar, who married Tharoor in August 2010, was found sprawled on a bed in room 345 at The Leela Palace hotel in south Delhi.

She had reportedly checked into the hotel Thursday night.

On Thursday, Tharoor and Pushkar issued a joint statement saying they were distressed by an "unseemly controversy" over some "unauthorized tweets" posted from their Twitter accounts and that both were "happily married and intend to remain that way".

The statement claimed that "distorted accounts" of comments "allegedly made by Sunanda", alleging an affair between her husband and a Pakistani journalist, had "led to some erroneous conclusions".

"We wish to stress that we are happily married and intend to remain that way."

A Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram, it was Thaoor's third marriage to Pushakar and her second.

A scandal erupted Wednesday after tweets posted on Tharoor's account reportedly spoke of his love to the Pakistani journalist, Mehr Tarar, who denied she was having an affair with the Indian minister.

Pushkar initially threatened to divorce Tharoor, who then tweeted that his twitter account had been hacked and would be offline for sometime.

But a furious Pushkar told a newspaper that Mehr could be a Pakistani spy and that she was stalking Thaoor. "And you know how men are. He is flattered by the attention."

"I will not allow this to be done to me. I just can't tolerate this. I have nothing more to say," she told the Economic Times.

Tarar threatened to file a defamation suit against Pushkar for calling her a Pakistani intelligence agent.

She also trashed Pushkar, saying her conduct was "nauseous".

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