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Former Indian minister Shashi Tharoor charged with abetting wife's suicide
India’s Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has been charged with abetting the suicide of his wife Sunanda Pushkar in 2014.
Published : 14 May 2018, 11:58 AM
Updated : 14 May 2018, 01:42 PM
A parliamentarian from Kerala, Tharoor was also accused of cruelty in his marriage by police at a Delhi court on Monday, NDTV reported.
Pushkar, 51, was found dead in a suite of a five-star hotel in south Delhi on Jan 17, 2014, days after she publicly accused her husband of having an affair with Mehr Tarar, a well-known Pakistani journalist and one of the editors of the Lahore-based Daily Times.
Police first claimed that Sunanda was poisoned, and registered a murder case in January 2015, without naming any suspect.
Tharoor, a former Union Minister and UN Under Secretary General, was questioned by police on the circumstances under which Sunanda left him at the Delhi airport and checked into the hotel two days before her death. The couple had allegedly had an argument on a flight from Kerala to Delhi.
The former Congress minister of state for human resource development married the Dubai-based entrepreneur in August 2010.
Tharoor called the charge "preposterous" and said he intended to "contest it vigorously", the Times of India reported.
Police, however, maintained the charges against Tharoor were finalised on the basis of "medico-legal and forensic evidence”, the newspaper said.
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