Union Minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar found dead in Delhi hotel
New Delhi: Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor, wife of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, was found dead in a five-star hotel in New Delhi on Friday evening, a day after unconfirmed reports in the press about an alleged affair Tharoor had with a Pakistani journalist, Mehr Tarar, whom Sunanda's Twitter called a 'stalker' and an 'ISI agent'. Tharoor had said the social network site accounts were hacked and they issued a statement saying that they were happily married. The post-mortem examinatiion was done on Saturday afternoon and the report was awaited.
It is said that they had checked into the Leela Palace hotel in Chanakyapuri as their official residence in Delhi was under repair, after arriving from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala where she had been admitted in a hospital for investigation and treatment of undisclosed ailments. She was 52. The minister's private secretary Abhinav Kumar said that the two had taken the suite in the hotel on Thursday and had spent the night there.
She was found dead by Tharoor on return to the hotel at 8:30 pm from the AICC session which he was attending the whole day. The hotel's doctor confirmed the death and the police were informed soon after.
The police said they were examining all angles, including overdose of medicines or heart attack. Rigor mortis had already set in, indicating that she had died at least 4 hours earlier. The autopsy was done by an expert team of three doctors at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, in the afternoon on Saturday. The full
report is awaited.
