Probe into Shashi Tharoor’s wife’s death under mysterious circumstances. Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor, was found dead in a New Delhi hotel on Friday night. Forensic sources said rigor mortis had set in, suggesting death had occurred in the afternoon. She was 52.
The police said they were informed of the death by Dr. Tharoor’s personal staff, but offered no further details, saying the cause of death could only be established in a post-mortem examination.
Highly-placed police sources said an enquiry into the cause of the death had been initiated by the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, since the couple had not yet been married for seven full years.
Ms. Pushkar, police sources said, was staying in Room 345 of the upscale Leela Kempinski Hotel, in New Delhi’s diplomatic enclave, since Thursday. The police received a call from the hotel informing them that Ms. Puhskar was lying dead in her room.
Abhinav Kumar, Dr. Tharoor’s personal aide, told journalists Dr. Tharoor had left the hotel room early on Friday morning, to attend the All India Congress Committee session. The couple, he said, were staying in the hotel because their home was being fumigated. Dr. Tharoor returned at 8.15 p.m., Mr. Kumar said, but remained in an ante-room for some time. He entered the bedroom when it was time to leave for a further engagement, only to find his wife’s body.
Police sources said no suicide note had been recovered. Teams from Delhi’s Forensic Science Team were searching the hotel room.
Family sources told INN Live that Ms. Pushkar had been severely stressed for the past several days, after she dramatically tweeted messages appearing to suggest a romantic relationship between her husband and a Pakistani journalist, Mehr Tarar. “I love you, Shashi Tharoor”, one purported message from Ms. Tarar to Mr. Tharoor read.
The Minister said the tweets, which emanated from his account, were the work of a hacker. However, Ms. Pushkar later said she had found the message on her husband’s personal phone.
Ms. Tarar, speaking to INN Live from Lahore on Thursday, had denied any romantic involvement with Mr. Tharoor, saying she had met the Minister just twice, first in April last year in New Delhi and then in June in Dubai. She travelled again to New Delhi in December, to interview Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, but had not met Dr. Tharoor as he was travelling at the time, she said.
Dr. Tharoor later said in a statement issued on Thursday that Ms. Pushkar “has been ill and hospitalised this week and is seeking to rest. We would be grateful if the media respects our privacy.” Both women, however, engaged in personal attacks on each other in Twitter, fuelling further controversy.
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