Sunanda Pushkar death: Shashi Tharoor to face music

Police have sought legal opinion to question former union minister Shashi Tharoor over the mysterious death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar. They have also said that there is no clean chit to the former minister. AIIMS Forensic Department head Dr Sudhir Gupta cliamed that he was pressurised to manipulate the autopsy report of Sunanda Pushkar, but AIIMS rejected his allegations. Gupta has alleged that he was pressurised into manipulating the autopsy report but he had refused to show that Sunanda's death was natural.

Sunanda (52) was found dead in a 5-star hotel in South Delhi on the night of January 17, a day after her twitter spat with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar over an alleged affair with Tharoor. The autopsy report had mentioned more than a dozen injury marks on Sunanda's both hands and an abrasion on her cheek which suggests a "use of blunt force", an injection mark besides a "deep teeth bite" on the edge of her left palm. Viscera samples were preserved after the autopsy at AIIMS and were sent to CFSL for further tests.