Four years after Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in suite number 345 of the Leela Hotel, the Delhi Police have filed a charge sheet and named her husband and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor as an accused in the case.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has been charged with abetment of suicide in the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar in 2014. Mr Tharoor has also been charged with cruelty in his marriage.
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.
The former union minister was questioned by the police on the circumstances in which Ms Pushkar left him at the Delhi airport and checked into the hotel two days before her death. The couple had allegedly had a disagreement on a flight from Kerala to Delhi.
Sources said that in the final police report, Tharoor has been charged under section 306 and 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which pertain to abetment to suicide and cruelty to wife.
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