New Delhi:
The viscera report of Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor, Union Minister Shashi Tharoor's wife who died under mysterious circumstances in January, reportedly mentions traces of two drugs but has ruled out poisoning.
This is in variance with the autopsy report of Mrs Tharoor, who was found dead at a five-star hotel in Delhi, which found that she died of poisoning. Doctors who handled her post-mortem described her death as "sudden and unnatural".
"We have received the viscera report, it will be examined by doctors who conducted her post-mortem," Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi said today.
Sources say the viscera report, which was handed over to Delhi Police on Friday, mentions remnants of two drugs - Alprax and Excedrin. Strips of the former had been recovered from the hotel room where Mrs Tharoor was found dead in her bed. The medicine, used by people suffering from anxiety, sleep disorder and depression, is available over the counter.
Earlier, police had been ordered by a magistrate in Delhi to determine whether the death of Mrs Tharoor was accidental, a suicide, or murder based on the autopsy that said the 52-year-old had died of poisoning.
The report also said that there were injuries on her body, but described these as small and ruled them out as the cause of her death.
Under law, a magisterial inquiry is automatic if a woman dies within seven years of marriage.
Mrs Tharoor was found dead days after she disclosed that she had uncovered evidence of her husband's alleged affair with a Pakistani journalist, whom she targeted in a series of tweets.