Congress lawmaker Shashi Tharoor in New Delhi, before he was interrogated in his wife Sunanda Pushkar's murder case. (Press Trust of India)
Congress politician Shashi Tharoor was interrogated today for the first time in the murder case of his wife Sunanda Pushkar, who was found dead in a five-star hotel in Delhi last year. Police have not named any suspect in the investigation.
Several witnesses who have been interrogated over the last weeks have shared with the police their accounts of the last few months of Mr Tharoor's four-year marriage to Ms Pushkar.
Sources say the Delhi Police asked Mr Tharoor about reports that the couple fought often in the months leading up to Ms Pushkar's death.
Among the nearly 50 questions that were reportedly put to Mr Tharoor were a few that focused on an injury, described as "a puncture mark" in the medical report submitted to the police in December by doctors who conducted Ms Pushkar's autopsy.
The police says that Ms Pushkar was poisoned, either orally or via injection. Sources say Mr Tharoor was also asked to clarify remarks that his wife had lupus; the latest medical report concludes that she did not have any pre-existing serious medical condition.
Mr Tharoor was a minister in the Manmohan Singh government at the time of his wife's death.
He has said that he "was stunned" by the police's allegation that she was killed.
Till the latest medical report was given to the police, Ms Pushkar's death had been debated as a possible suicide.