Delhi Police on Tuesday told a court that Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar who was allegedly driven to commit suicide was suffering mental agony due to a strained relationship with her husband. She had a fight with him which resulted in injury marks a few days before her death. The police accused Tharoor of torturing his wife which forced her to commit suicide.

The Delhi Police charged the former Union Minister under Sections 498-A (husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty) and 306 ( abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The probe agency told judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar that the cause of Pushkar's death was poisoning and 15 injury marks were found on various parts of her body. Special Public Prosecutor Atul Shrivastava told the court that Pushkar was upset because of a fight with her husband. The prosecutor also added Tharoor's relationship with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar also added to Sunanda's mental agony.