Preposterous! Tharoor says on chargesheet in Sunanda death
May 14, 2018  16:22
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Shashi Tharoor reacts to the abetment to suicide charge filed against him in the death of his Sunanda Pushkar in 2014.


"I have taken note of the filing of this preposterous charge sheet and intend to contest it vigorously. No one who knew Sunanda believes she would ever have committed suicide, let alone abetment on my part. If this is conclusion arrived at after 4+ yrs of investigation, it does not speak well of the methods or motivations of the Delhi Police. In Oct 17, the Law Officer made a statement in the Delhi High Court that they have not found anything against anyone & now in 6 months they say that I have abetted a suicide. Unbelievable," Tharoor tweeted.


The Delhi Police on Monday filed a chargesheet in a court accusing Congress leader Shashi Tharoor of abetting the suicide of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.


Tharoor is the only person who has been arrayed as an accused in the case.


The police in its chargesheet, which runs into around 3,000 pages, has also alleged that Tharoor had subjected his wife to cruelty.


The police filed the chargesheet in the mysterious death of Pushkar before Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmendra Singh, who will consider it on May 24.


It also urged the court to summon Tharoor as an accused.


Image: Shashi Tharoor sits in an ambulance as he waits outside a mortuary to receive his wife Sunanda Puskhar Tharoor's body at a hospital in New Delhi in 2014.

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