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Sunanda Pushkar case: Delhi court directs police to hand over documents to Shashi Tharoor

Pushkar was found dead in a suite of a luxury hotel in the city on the night of January 17, 2014. The couple were staying in the hotel as the official bungalow of Tharoor was being renovated at that time.

Shashi Tharoor files criminal defamation case against Ravi Shankar Prasad for calling him ‘murder accused’

The defamation suit comes months after Tharoor had sent a legal notice to Prasad seeking an "unconditional apology" for his remarks in connection with Sunanda Pushkar's death.

Court directs police to hand over certain documents to Tharoor in Sunanda death case

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.

Delhi HC dismisses plea challenging cancellation of Shashi Tharoor's bail plea in Sunanda Pushkar death case

Pushkar was found dead in a suite of a luxury hotel in the city on the night of January 17, 2014. The couple was staying in the hotel, as the official bungalow of Shashi Tharoor was being renovated at that time.

Sunanda Pushkar death case: Police partly supports in HC plea challenging Tharoor's anticipatory bail

Justice R K Gauba was told by Delhi Police Standing Counsel (Criminal) Rahul Mehra that Shashi Tharoor ought to have first gone to the magisterial court that had summoned him as an accused, to seek bail. 

Shashi Tharoor to seek UN aid for Kerala, gets permission to travel abroad

Shashi Tharoor also sought permission from Patiala Court to visit the family of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who passed away recently and pay his respects.

Sunanda Pushkar case: Cops tell court Subramanian Swamy's plea ‘not maintainable’

Police also opposed Swamy’s second application which sought vigilance inquiry report from police. Shashi Tharoor’s counsel Vikas Pahwa opposed Swamy’s application on the ground that it did not have any locus in the case and submitted that he wanted to file a written reply.

Sunanda Pushkar case: Delhi court grants regular bail to Shashi Tharoor, next hearing on July 26

"There is no requirement to file a formal bail. Anticipatory bail had been granted by the sessions court," the judge said.

Sunanda Pushkar death case: Shashi Tharoor to appear in Delhi court today

The MP from Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday was granted anticipatory bail by the Patiala House Court.

Sunanda Pushkar death: Court grants Shashi Tharoor bail, says police claim is ‘without basis’

Tharoor had moved the court on July 3 seeking interim relief, after he was summoned by police as an accused on July 7.

Shashi Tharoor immerses Sunanda Pushkar's ashes in Ganga in Haridwar

Sunanda Pushkar cremated

Doctors said that Sunanda Pushkar's death was a case of "sudden, unnatural death".

Sunanda Pushkar died due to anti-anxiety drug overdose: Swamy

Kochi, Jan 22 (ANI): Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Friday stated that Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar's died “due to poison”. He added that she died due to an overdose of anti-anxiety drug, Alprax, which if given in high dose, causes heart failure. He further said that Tharoor statement to the police was contradictory, which shows that he is hiding something, and now he has become the prime suspect in the investigation.

Tharoor should be taken into custody for questioning: Swamy

Jaipur, Jan 16 (ANI): Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Saturday said that FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) report found presence of heart-arrest injectable poison Lidocaine in wife of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor Sunanda Pushkar’s body. He added that the Delhi police had categorically asserted that the cause of Pushkar’s death was not natural, and police should immediately take Tharoor into custody for questioning.

Sunanda Pushkar’s death was a sudden unnatural death: AIIMS

New Delhi, Jan 16 (ANI): Dr. Sudhir Gupta, head of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) forensic department, on Saturday alleged that medical report reveals that death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, was a sudden unnatural death and this had been said from the very beginning by the medical board. He added that the report was under consideration and the matter would be investigated accordingly.

Evidences indicate Sunanda Pushkar's death was unnatural: Bassi

New Delhi, Jan 15 (ANI): Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi on Friday said that as far as evidences were concerned until now, Sunanda Pushkar's, wife of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, death was unnatural. He added that the Delhi police have received medical board’s advice on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) lab report on viscera samples of Sunanda Pushkar to identify the cause of her death. Pushkar, 52, was found dead in a room in a south Delhi Hotel on January 17, 2014.