8 years ago
New Delhi:
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has been charged with abetting suicide in the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar in 2014 at a hotel in Delhi. Mr Tharoor has also been accused of cruelty in his marriage in the chargesheet submitted by the Delhi Police in a Delhi court today. Mr Tharoor is a Congress parliamentarian from Kerala. He denied the charges and called them "preposterous". Mr Tharoor is the only person named as an accused in the 3,000-page chargesheet filed by the Delhi Police. Sunanda Pushkar was 51 when was found dead in her suite at a luxury hotel in south Delhi on January 17, 2014. She was found dead days after she accused Shashi Tharoor of having an affair with a Pakistani journalist. Delhi Police have said they found no evidence of murder but circumstances were such that she had been driven to suicide -- she had not been eating or even leaving her room, the chargesheet says.
