NEW DELHI
INP
In an explosive revelation, senior Indian journalist Nalini Singh has said that Indian Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar was tensed and crying hard hours before her death.
Notably, the TV journalist was the last person Sunanda called from her mobile.
In an exclusive conversation with an Indian news outfit, Singh said, “I thought Sunanda was perturbed because of the then ongoing Twitter spat between her and Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar. But Sunanda told her that Shashi has deleted messages from his BlackBerry phone. She said that as a media person, I should help her in retrieving those messages. But let me tell you that Sunanda discussed about Tarar with me six months back also during a dinner at her place.”
Sunanda was also unhappy because of a meeting between her husband Tharoor and Tarar in Dubai, Singh added.
CASE HISTORY:
Earlier, Sunanda was found dead at Hotel Leela Palace in South Delhi on January 17, just a day after she and Tharoor claimed they were “happily married” despite an ugly public spat.
Sunanda had alleged an affair between the Pakistani journalist and her husband days before her death in mysterious conditions. The controversy surrounding her death has been revived now.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Forensics Department Head Dr Sudhir Gupta has alleged that he was pressurised to show that Sunanda’s death was “natural”. The AIIMS administration has denied Dr Gupta’s allegation.
Delhi Police set up a Special Investigation Team a few days after Sunanda’s death to probe the case as it occurred a little over three years after the marriage. Under the law, every death of a bride within three years of marriage is viewed with suspicion that it may be a case of dowry death.
