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A Delhi court on Wednesday discharged senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in a case related to his wife <keyword id="138503" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sunanda-Pushkar">Sunanda Pushkar</keyword>'s death in a luxury hotel here. Special Judge Geetanjali Goel passed the order in a virtual hearing. Tharoor thanked the judge, and said it was "an absolute torture for last seven-and-a-half-years" and that it was a "great relief". During the arguments, while police had sought framing of various charges, including 306 (abetment of suicide), senior advocate Vikas Pahwa, appearing for Tharoor, told the court that the investigation conducted by the SIT completely exonerated the politician of all the charges levelled against him. Pushkar was found dead in a suite of a luxury hotel in the city on the night of January 17, 2014. The couple was staying in the hotel as the official bungalow of Tharoor was being renovated at that time. Tharoor was charged under sections 498A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) and 306 of the Indian Penal Code by the Delhi Police, but was not arrested in the case. He was granted bail on July 5, 2018. SEE ALSO <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/paytm-ipo-former-one-97-communication-director-urges-sebi-to-stall-the-public-issue/articleshow/85293132.cms">Paytm IPO: Former One 97 Communication director urges SEBI to stall the public issue</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/windows-11-microsoft-rolling-out-updated-snipping-tool-calculator-and-mail-apps/articleshow/85292943.cms">Windows 11 Microsoft rolling out updated snipping tool, calculator and mail apps</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/corporates/news/infibeam-avenues-is-looking-to-acquire-a-point-of-sale-company/articleshow/85292156.cms">INTERVIEW: Infibeam Avenues is looking to acquire a point-of-sale company</a>

Sunanda Pushkar death case: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor says it is a "great relief" after a special court lets him off

After investigating for months, <keyword id="138503" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Sunanda-Pushkar">Sunanda Pushkar</keyword>’s death mystery is finally reaching a definite conclusion. AIIMS medical board confirmed that she died of "poisoning". The board gave its opinion on the FBI report on her viscera samples, unanimously concluding that there was presence of anxiety drug Alprax in her stomach. 
 
However, the board did not rule out the possibility of any injectable poison, in view of a particular mark on Sunanda's body, and said that the FBI report confirmed the presence of lidocaine in her body, said the medical board's opinion communicated to Delhi Police. 
The report ruled out death due to combination of drugs and also said that the medical board is "highly afraid" that this case may have led to a complete "botched up" scenario in absence of the FBI report. 
 
It also said that the Special Investigation team (SIT) probing the case should "thoroughly investigate" if any person had access to injectable agents in view of a syringe mark spotted in Sunanda's body. 
 
"The Medical Board unanimously concluded that the cause of death in this case is poisoning. 
 
"The circumstantial recovery of empty Alprex Tablets (27 tablets) and report of FBI which shows the presence of Alprax in stomach and its contents, spleen, liver section, half of each kidney, blood sample, as well as urine wet clothing, bed cover and bed sheet confirmed the death is due to excessive ingestion of Tablet Alprazolam," the written opinion reads. 
t further said, "The Medical Board does not rule out any injectable poison in view of injury number 10 which is an injection prick mark and the same is subsequently clarified by KIMS Hospital as well as the confirmation of presence of lidocaine in FBI report... The dozens of unexplained injuries including teeth bite mark are suggestive of active scuffle prior to death." 
 
The board also said that the fatal dose of Alprax is completely variable from person to person, physical conditions and medical history/duration/dose of intake of Alprax. Exceeding the prescribed dose leads to poisoning. 
 
Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi today refused to comment on the medical board's opinion and said that necessary information regarding the case will be shared once the investigation is complete and a report is submitted at the court. 
"I would not like to enter into speculations. What is being published or broadcasted in the media could be right or could be wrong. At this point of time, I won't be able to say anything conclusive. 
 
"Once the investigation is complete, we shall send a report to the court. At that point we shall brief media about our findings. And I can assure that the investigation will be complete as early as possible," Bassi told reporters. 
 
(Image credits: indiatimes)

Sunanda Pushkar died of poisoning: AIIMS confirms

The high-profile case surrounding <keyword id="138503" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sunanda-Pushkar">Sunanda Pushkar</keyword>’s death has not been laid to rest yet. Recently, former union minister and Kerala MP <keyword id="42749" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Shashi-Tharoor">Shashi Tharoor</keyword> was grilled by investigating agency officials in connection with the case. What had been more intriguing is the BJP MP <keyword id="6370187" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Subramanian-Swamy">Subramanian Swamy</keyword>’s statements that Shashi probably knows Sunanda’s killers. 
 
This not only gave a new twist to the case, but also left Shashi Tharoor in a quandary over his wife’s death. He recently spoke to the media in Kerala during his visit, and said he was not even allowed to mourn his wife’s death ever since it happened last year. 
 
How did a ‘sudden’ death of Sunanda Pushkar turn into a case riddled with suspicion? Was it the money aspect that surrounded her contacts with high and mighty of the political circles? When did a spat between husband and wife, over another woman (Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar) turn into something deeper than what was visible on the surface? After all, Sunanda had vowed to ‘finish’ Shashi off by laying bare some aspects of his life including that of his involvement in IPL. His personal life, she had anyway exposed through her tweets from his handle, pertaining to the particular affinity he had shown towards Tarar. 
 
Sunanda was a familiar face in the social and political circles of Lutyen’s Delhi. Subramanian Swamy, who is probably playing the Sherlock Holmes in this case, recently issued another statement saying Sunanda ‘met somebody’ in Lutyen’s area. While these snippets shroud the mystery aspect around her death, there isn’t a particular direction to any of these. 
 
What was earlier deemed to be a case of mistakenly mixing drugs, and perhaps alcohol, has now turned into a case of murder that isn’t concluded yet. Her viscera samples are still being tested abroad, a year after she was laid to rest. If it wasn’t the drugs clashing with each other and eventually killing her, was she injected with poisonous substance? It is said that there were a dozen injury marks on her body that weren’t reasoned. The police are still at a loss to explain this aspect surrounding her death. 
 The last call she made was to her son <keyword id="2020656" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Shiv-Menon">Shiv Menon</keyword>. He has also been questioned to know what the conversation was about, and if there was a whiff of anything that seemed like she would commit suicide in a matter of few minutes. Shiv Menon has given his statement to the agencies, and this hasn’t clearly led anywhere. Police have been questioning everyone who was in contact with her two days prior to her death. 
 
One of Shashi’s domestic helps mentioned of a mysterious ‘KT’ who was the point of argument in their conversations. However, a writer who identified herself as ‘Katie’ issued a statement on the Internet stating it was coincidental that everyone was assuming it to be her since she had evinced interest in chronicling Shashi’s life. 
 
Was it Lupus that killed her? Again, not willing to stay off the case, Subramanian Swamy has demanded the medical reports from Shashi Tharoor who had earlier said Sunanda had Lupus and that she could have had some trouble even because of that. 
 
With all these aspects that are clashing with each other in the cyberspace, will Sunanda remain a mystery woman who burst like a star and met her end owing to her ambitions of leading a luxurious life? Will India ever know how and why she died? Or will investigating agencies write off a mysterious end to the inconclusive case as they did in terms of Aarushi Talwar? Truly, the nation wants to know!

Worms Still Wriggling Out Of Sunanda Pushkar Death Case

Murders have an objective. But, hate crime is like an abstract art. It can evoke a thousand images in the eyes of those who are staring at it. <keyword id="138503" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sunanda-Pushkar">Sunanda Pushkar</keyword>’s early departure from the world seems to be wracking quite a few nerves almost after a year after she died. 
 Congress MP <keyword id="42749" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Shashi-Tharoor">Shashi Tharoor</keyword>, the suave looking gentleman who had had a perfect career growth till he entered politics with his elite education, is grappling with the aftermath of the death of a woman who happened to be his third wife. This is hardly the kind of life the man who almost occupied the top most post in United Nations imagined for self. 
 
Sunanda Pushkar, the impeccably beautiful woman who was just 49 years old when she died, left behind a plot that could have had Shakespeare write another Macbeth if he wished to. Or, did you mention Hamlet? The kind of skeletons that tumbled out of the closet before and after her death are enough to create scripts for at least a dozen Hollywood films. Wonder why RGV hasn’t yet announced a film on that! 
 A breathtakingly beautiful Kashmiri Pandit woman who had a rags-to-riches story in her blood, departed suddenly after an almost fantasy marriage to the then Union Minister Shashi Tharoor who enjoyed great proximity with the powers in the <keyword id="26374" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="UPA-government">UPA government</keyword>. The IPL fiasco where Sunanda was given sweat equity just days before the IPL bid, and her liaison with Shashi Tharoor didn’t go down too well with the Indian media. Embarrassments later, Sunanda said she would relinquish her bid, but continued to hold it. Accusations that Sunanda was Shashi’s proxy flew back and forth, finally costing Tharoor his ministerial berth. By then Sunanda and Shashi had been much married. The wedding was covered extensively with chosen dignitaries attending the ceremony held in Kerala, and subsequently an elite reception in Delhi. The ‘who’s who’ of Indian politics and sports were surely there. 
 
All was well till another woman came into the picture. A Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar, a single mother for whom Shashi Tharoor had already taken a liking, entered the scene and all hell broke loose. 
 
Sunanda managed to scan and retweet Shashi’s newfound love saga on Twitter, tweeting from Shashi’s twitter handle, and overnight ruined his image with the information she had access to. Just when the plot was getting murkier, Shashi and Sunanda had an ugly spat, moved into Leela Hotel in Delhi to probably settle things down. The ‘blow hot blow cold’ time was still on when Mehr claimed innocence, returned equally abusive tweets to Sunanda Pushkar. Rest that followed was so close to being filmy that it couldn’t have happened in real life. 
 
By a wintery evening of January 17, 2014 Sunanda had breathed her last. The death was as mysterious as her life and the ways and means in which she had amassed enough wealth to buy apartments and properties at elite locations worldwide. Investigations began and the death turned into a deeper mystery. A year later, India is yet to hear a final word on the death of Sunanda Pushkar nee Tharoor. 
 
Few months into the new government after Narendra Modi assumed power, Shashi Tharoor’s support to the PM was often dubbed as his attempt to keep from being arrested in connection with his wife’s mysterious death. Investigative authorities have not been able to give a definite answer to the questions about what led to her death. 
 In the recent times, the case has gained a different dimension with BJP MP Subramanian Swamy sending out insidious tweets about the facts he (Tharoor) was ‘in the know of’ of about Sunanda’s murder. The war of words began between Swamy and Tharoor on the matter. Swamy said Tharoor knew who the murderer was, and challenged Shashi to reveal the names to the police. Ugly spat later, <keyword id="6358992" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi-Police">Delhi police</keyword> said they will question Shashi Tharoor pertaining to the murder, almost turning it into an ‘open and shut’ case. Now truly, Shashi Tharoor and a few more ‘influential’ names who are supposed to be in the know of matters relating to shadow play in IPL have begun to see Sunanda’s ghost. Till Delhi police says who killed her, Sunanda will continue to haunt many. 
 
Image: indiatimes

Sunanda Pushkar Death: A Heady Cocktail Of Politics, Elite, Suspicion

Giving a new twist to <keyword id="138503" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Sunanda-Pushkar">Sunanda Pushkar</keyword> case, <keyword id="6358992" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="40" keywordseo="Delhi-Police">Delhi Police</keyword> has now said that she was murdered. It has also filed a murder case in the incident. Sunanda was the wife of Congress MP <keyword id="42749" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Shashi-Tharoor">Shashi Tharoor</keyword>, who was found dead in mysterious circumstances in a five-star hotel in January last year. 
 
Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi said that it appears she died due to poisoning, but it has yet not been identified what kind of poison was used. "She died due to poisoning. Whether the poison was given orally or injected into her body is being investigated," he said. "We have to investigate whether she poisoned herself or whether she was forcefully given poison," Bassi added. 
 
Although no one has been named in the FIR, Bassi said, "Relevant people will be questioned." 
 According to the police, the FIR has been registered on the basis of medical reports received from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (<keyword id="40458" type="COMPANY" weightage="40" keywordseo="AIIMS">AIIMS</keyword>), where her autopsy was conducted. It is pertinent to mention here that the medical board had earlier said that Sunanda’s death was 'unnatural.' 
 
Dr Sudhir Gupta, the head of AIIMS, had alleged in July last year that he was pressurised to change Pushkar's post-mortem report.

Delhi Police Deciphers Sunanda Pushkar’s Death Mystery , Says She Was Murdered

Shashi Tharoor, the sitting MP of Kerala’s capital Thiruvananthapuram reclaimed his seat. He won by a margin of 99,989 votes over his closest competitor Bharatiya Janata Party’s Kummam Rajasekharan . Former Union Minister in the UPA government Shashi Tharoor has fought his toughest election ever in 2019. Surprisingly, for this Congress candidate, 2019 is a much tougher than the 2014 election when his wife Sunanda Pushkar had died a few months before elections, under mysterious circumstances. Then he was elected albeit a lower margin, affected by a Modi wave and allegations of involvement in Pushkar’s death. This time around, Tharoor was countered by a full throttle campaigning by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the communist party. A matter of faith The BJP candidate K Rajasekharan has been playing the ‘faith’ angle. The Sabrimala controversy has left the majority of the population angry as many believed that women should not enter the shrine, to maintain its sanctity. The party had been banking on the fact that people are angry with Left Democratic Front (LDF) in the state. BJP also believed that their ability to sway votes will be able to let them win their first seat in the state. Last election, their candidate O Rajagopal had come very close to bringing Tharoor down. Tharoor won by a bare minimum margin of over 15,000 votes, much unlike his earlier victories. It indicated that BJP might have a chance at a win, this time around. Tharoor who had earlier risen to the rank of Under Secretary General at the United Nations, and known for his chaste English, entered Indian politics in 2009. He struck a chord with his electorate in spite of not being a typical Malayalee. Though Tharoor is known to sing Christian carols and embrace Islamic traditions, he also identifies himself as a Hindu. During the Sabarimalai controversy, he banded with the popular opinion and stood with his people. C Divakaran, an MLA from Communist Party of India is the third contestant, who sought mandate from Thiruvananthapuram by focusing on civic issues, moving away from popularity, incumbency and matters of faith.

Shashi Tharoor survives aggressive rival campaign to win by a wide margin

Indian Prime Minister <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword>’s praise for her Bangladeshi counterpart <keyword id="66026" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Sheikh-Hasina">Sheikh Hasina</keyword> went sour when he lauded her over fighting terrorism “despite being a woman”. 
 
Modi, while addressing Dhaka University on his two-day visit to the neighbouring nation, praised Hasina but his ‘despite being a woman’ statement raised many eyebrows. 
 
"I am happy that Bangladesh Prime Minister, despite being a woman, has declared zero tolerance for terrorism,” Modi had said. 
 
What Modi must have meant was that despite hardships faced by a woman, Hasina tackled terrorism but Twitter users took it as an insult. 
 
#Despitebeingawoman was trending on Twitter with tweeps posting pictures of Indian politicians, athletes, educationists, etc who have achieved various feats. 
 
Some people even raked up old wounds when Modi in 2012 had called Shashi Tharoor’s deceased wife Sunanda Pushkar “50 crore ki girlfriend”. 
 
Twitterati did not even spare her wife Jashodaben. 
 
Here’s how Twitter reacted to #Despitebeingawoman 
 
 
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		<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DespiteBeingAWoman?src=hash">#DespiteBeingAWoman</a> she did not fight for her rights as his legally wedded wife nor for the respect accorded to a PM's wife in 7 RCR.
	— Rana Ayyub (@RanaAyyub) <a href="https://twitter.com/RanaAyyub/status/607782730860883968">June 8, 2015</a></blockquote>
 
 
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		Woke up, showered, had breakfast, crossed the road, made it to work on time. All by myself, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DespiteBeingAWoman?src=hash">#DespiteBeingAWoman</a>.
	— Agratha Dinakaran (@Agratha) <a href="https://twitter.com/Agratha/status/607782160209047552">June 8, 2015</a></blockquote>
 
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		How can you even say or think <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/despitebeingawoman?src=hash">#despitebeingawoman</a> when your own country had a great female PM way before most first world countries! Shame!
	— Amena (@Fashionopolis) <a href="https://twitter.com/Fashionopolis/status/607765373463621635">June 8, 2015</a></blockquote>
 
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		"<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DespiteBeingAWoman?src=hash">#DespiteBeingAWoman</a>" <a href="http://t.co/JtGVFL58jD">pic.twitter.com/JtGVFL58jD</a>
	— Brumby(No MSG Found) (@brownbrumby) <a href="https://twitter.com/brownbrumby/status/607757471340335105">June 8, 2015</a></blockquote>
 
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		Despite being a woman, Jashodaben is going from authority to authority not getting an answer to her queries. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DespiteBeingAWoman?src=hash">#DespiteBeingAWoman</a>
	— कनिका गहलौत (@kanikagahlaut) <a href="https://twitter.com/kanikagahlaut/status/607758076813307904">June 8, 2015</a></blockquote>
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