FILE photo: Union minister Shashi Tharoor with his wife Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor at Parliament
New Delhi:
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to Union Minister Shashi Tharoor this evening and condoled the death of his wife
Sunanda P Tharoor.
"I am deeply saddened at your loss. May God give you strength in this hour of grief," Dr Singh told Mr Tharoor. Mrs Tharoor, who was upset over an alleged extra-marital affair between her husband and a Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar, was found dead in the room of a five-star hotel in Delhi.
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(Mehr Tarar 'shocked' at Sunanda P Tharoor's death)Police said they did not suspect any foul play in her death, adding it may be a case of suicide.
(Read: Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor found dead - sequence of events)The body of 52-year-old Sunanda P Tharoor, a woman entrepreneur who married Mr Tharoor in August 2010, was found in mysterious circumstances at the luxury Leela Palace hotel in South Delhi.
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