Congress lawmaker Shashi Tharoor will have to face trial as an accused on charges of abetting the suicide of his wife Sunanda Pushkar in 2014. The former union minister has been summoned by a court on July 7.
Last month, four years after Pushkar was found dead in suite number 345 of the Leela Hotel, the Delhi Police filed a charge-sheet and named her husband and Congress MP Tharoor as an accused in the case. According to the charge-sheet, Pushkar killed herself by consuming an overdose of antidepressant pills, alprazolam (Alprax), and was driven to taking the extreme step by her husband.
Mr Tharoor, a parliamentarian from Kerala, has also been accused of cruelty to his wife, in the police charge-sheet.
The charge-sheet was filed before Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmender Singh at the Patiala House court. Police have concluded that it was a case of suicide and not murder. The FIR in the case was filed under section 302 IPC.
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