SIT gets call record details in Sunanda case

Police sources said SIT officers are now scanning the most vital part of information and will be looking for her conversations with her husband Shashi Tharoor and other close family members, which will form the basis of the next round of investigation. “The call records of Sunanda will provide details about the conversations she had with various persons both in India and abroad, which could be crucial to the case and this would help the police understand better what the motive for her death could have been,” a police officer said.

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On January 20, the Delhi Police had handed over two laptops and four mobile phones to Gujarat DFS to retrieve the data. “We had sent certain equipment for retrieval of data from the forensic science lab. They have retrieved the data and sent the equipment and a detailed report back to us. SIT had received these equipment and reports, now we are analysing the data. It is volumes of data and it will take time to analyse it,” Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi said.

“It is being examined and after its examination, if something of interest comes up, if we need to clarify it from any person that obviously will be done. If it doesn’t, then of course that may not be done,” he added.

SIT has not received the desired information sought so far from social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook among others. “We will ask Twitter, FB and Blackberry to expedite the process and provide us the information that we had sought from them. We will analyse the deleted information and see whether it was deleted as a routine process or it was done with a malafide intention,” Bassi said.

Delhi Police is also waiting for the FBI to send its report on the kind of poison which caused Pushkar’s death.

Investigators had sent the viscera samples to the US after AIIMS doctors had said Indian labs lacked the facility to identify the poison which caused her death.