New Delhi, Jan 6(The Hindu): A murder case has been registered in the death of Sunanda Pushkar, the wife of Congress MP and former Union Minster Shashi Tharoor, the Delhi Police said on Monday.
Pushkar was found dead in a hotel room in New Delhi on January 17, 2014. The final post-mortem report said that she died due to the presence of “poison” in her body.
The final report, prepared by the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences after studying the viscera report, says Sunanda’s death was caused by “poison” and not by an “overdose of Alprax.” This contradicts the preliminary report, which said “Alprax” was detected in the body.
Delhi Police sent viscera samples of Pushkar on November 13, 2014 to forensic laboratories abroad to determine the type of poison that is suspected to have caused her death.