Shashi Tharoor and Sunanda Pushkar. (Reuters file photo)
New Delhi:
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor will be interrogated about his wife's alleged murder "in a day or two," said BS Bassi, the Delhi Police Chief today.
Earlier this month, the police registered a murder case for Sunanda Pushkar, who was Mr Tharoor's third wife and was found dead in a five-star hotel in Delhi a year ago. Mr Tharoor recently pledged his continuing cooperation to the investigation, but said he has written to the police chief about concerns about how the inquiry is being conducted.
Mr Tharoor, 58, a parliamentarian from Kerala, said at a press conference last week that the investigation must be "free of political pressure or a pre-determined outcome."
In a letter to Mr Bassi written in November, he had complained that his domestic helper had been beaten up during interrogation by policemen who sought a confession that he had killed Ms Pushkar along with the politician. The police chief has said Mr tharoor's accusations of an attempt to frame him are baseless.
Ms Pushkar was found dead in a hotel suite she had checked into after publicly accusing her husband of an affair with a Pakistani journalist. Mr Tharoor has said he is "stunned" by the police's inference that she was killed. For most of last year, Ms Pushkar's death had been debated as a suicide. The police says that a medical report submitted in December by doctors who conducted Ms Pushkar's autopsy establishes that she was poisoned.
Earlier this month, the police registered a murder case for Sunanda Pushkar, who was Mr Tharoor's third wife and was found dead in a five-star hotel in Delhi a year ago. Mr Tharoor recently pledged his continuing cooperation to the investigation, but said he has written to the police chief about concerns about how the inquiry is being conducted.
Mr Tharoor, 58, a parliamentarian from Kerala, said at a press conference last week that the investigation must be "free of political pressure or a pre-determined outcome."
In a letter to Mr Bassi written in November, he had complained that his domestic helper had been beaten up during interrogation by policemen who sought a confession that he had killed Ms Pushkar along with the politician. The police chief has said Mr tharoor's accusations of an attempt to frame him are baseless.
Ms Pushkar was found dead in a hotel suite she had checked into after publicly accusing her husband of an affair with a Pakistani journalist. Mr Tharoor has said he is "stunned" by the police's inference that she was killed. For most of last year, Ms Pushkar's death had been debated as a suicide. The police says that a medical report submitted in December by doctors who conducted Ms Pushkar's autopsy establishes that she was poisoned.
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