Sunanda Pushkar’s death: Delhi Court directs police to give documents to Shashi Tharoor

The court had directed Delhi police to hand over various documents filed along with the charge sheet, including statements of witnesses, to Tharoor on a plea moved by him.
File photo dated September 04 2010 shows Congress MP Shashi Tharoor with his wife Sunanda Pushkar at their reception party in New Delhi. | PTI
File photo dated September 04 2010 shows Congress MP Shashi Tharoor with his wife Sunanda Pushkar at their reception party in New Delhi. | PTI

NEW DELHI: A court here directed Delhi police to hand over certain documents to Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, accused in a case related to his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal passed the directions after he was told by senior advocate Vikas Pahwa, appearing for Tharoor, that there were discrepancies in certain electronic evidence, provided by the prosecution.

He told the court that some of the documents mentioned in the list of evidence were either not received by him or failed to open.

“Reconciliation and comparison of all documents available with prosecution and defence is taking time,” Pahwa told the court.

Pushkar was found dead in a suite of a luxury hotel in the city on the night of January 17, 2014.

The court had directed Delhi police to hand over various documents filed along with the charge sheet, including statements of witnesses, to Tharoor on a plea moved by him.

The Thiruvananthapuram MP was granted regular bail on July 7 after he appeared before the court in pursuance to the summons issued against him.

The court had on June 5 summoned Tharoor, observing there was sufficient ground to proceed against him. He has been charged under Sections 498-A (husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty) and 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), but has not been arrested in the case.

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