Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor may have died of poisoning,according to the sub divisional magistrate (SDM) who is heading the investigation of death of the wife of Indian minister Shashi Tharoor.
Earlier, the doctors who carried out the autopsy said she may have died of a drug overdose but SDM Alok Sharma in his report has said that Sunanda died of poisoning, and has asked police to probe the cause of poisoning.
The SDM has also asked the police to specifically probe the murder/suicide angle.
The autopsy had also found “injury marks” on Pushkar’s body, but did not say if they were linked to her death.
Dr Amit Gupta, spokesperson of Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where the autopsy was conducted, told the media that the “preliminary report shows there was drug overdose”.
The autopsy report has been submitted to a magistrate.
Pushkar was found dead in a hotel room in the Indian capital of Delhi on Friday, two days after a Twitter row that caused a media frenzy in India and Pakistan.
On Wednesday, seemingly private messages between Tharoor and Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar were published on his Twitter feed that suggested the Indian Minister was romantically involved with Tarrar.
Pushkar admitted to two Indian national dailies that she had hacked in to her husband’s account and published the private conversation.
She accused Tarar of stalking her husband. Tarrar strongly denied the allegation.
On Thursday, Tharoor along with his wife published a joint statement that insisted that they were happily married and blamed “unauthorised tweets” for causing the confusion.