The Newshour Debate: Delhi Police registers murder case in Sunanda's death - 2
  • 9 years ago
In a debate moderated by TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, panelists -- Ranjana Kumari, Director, Centre for Social Research; Sanjay Hegde, Sr Advocate, SC; Lalitha Kumaramangalam, Chairperson, NCW; Nalin Kohli, Natl Spokesperson, BJP & Advocate; Dr Sumanth C Raman, Political Commentator; Shazia Ilmi, Political Analyst; KTS Tulsi, MP, Rajya Sabha & Sr Advocate, SC; C Rajashekaran, Advocate, Madras HC; and Suresh Babu, Gen Secy, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee -- discuss the issue of Delhi cops confirming that Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar was murdered, and whether injury number 10 is the clincher in the case?

In a sensational twist to the death of Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar, Delhi Police today (Jan 6, 2015) registered a murder case on the basis of a medical report that concluded her death was unnatural and due to poisoning but nobody has been named as a suspect as yet. Disclosing this, Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi did not rule out questioning Tharoor, now a Congress MP and a former Union Minister. It was not clear whether she had consumed the poison on her own or it was administered forcefully or by injection, he said. "Stunned" by the Delhi Police action, Tharoor, who had married Sunanda in 2010, sought full details from the investigators on the basis of which the police action came. While Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said registration of a case one year after the death raises question marks and suspicions. BJP spokesman GVL Narasimha Rao said the registration of a murder case has ended the confusion and hoped that the investigation will be concluded soon and the guilty prosecuted. Nearly a year after 51-year-old Sunanda was found dead in a luxury hotel here on January 17, Delhi Police filed the case of murder under section 302 of the IPC but no one has been named in the FIR. "Nobody has been named in the case," Bassi told reporters. Sunanda's death had created a sensation as it came hot on the heels of a bitter spat
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