Crime

Sunanda Pushkar death case: Police charges Shashi Tharoor with ‘abetment to suicide’

The Delhi Police on Monday filed its chargesheet in the death case of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of former Union minister and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor.

The Delhi Police, its chargesheet has accused Tharoor under section 306 (abetment to suicide) and section 498 A (cruelty in a marriage).

In January 2014, Sunanda Pushkar was found dead under mysterious circumstances in suite no 345 of Hotel Leela Palace in New Delhi. While police then suspected that she might have committed suicide, the possibility of medicine overdose was also not ruled out since Pushkar was undergoing medical treatment at the time of her death.

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