Sunanda Pushkar death: Police moves Delhi High Court against Shashi Tharoor's discharge

The Delhi Police on Thursday moved Delhi High Court against the Trial Court order passed on 18 August 2021 discharging Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in connection with the Sunanda Pushkar death case The Delhi police had accused Tharoor of abetment to suicide and cruelty against Pushkar who was found dead in a luxury hotel in Delhi in 2014The Delhi Police has knocked on the door of the Delhi High Court after the passing of an over 15month periodJustice Dinesh Kumar Sharma issued notice to Shashi Tharoor on an application moved by Delhi Police seeking condonation of delay in filing the revision petition The court fixed the matter for February 7 2023Senior Advocate Vikas Pahwa appeared for Shashi Tharoor apprised the court that during the course of the trial various orders were passed by the lower courts and HC where the records of this case must not be shared with anyoneTharoor was represented by Senior advocate Pahwa and lawyer Gaurav Gupta Public Prosecutor Atul Kumar Srivastava was representing Delhi Police in Trial court in the matterPushkar was found dead in a suite of a luxury hotel in the city on the night of January 17 2014Also Read SC reserves judgment on plea challenging Jammu and Kashmir delimitationCongress MP Shashi Tharoor husband of Sunanda Pushkar was the main accused in the matter according to the Delhi PoliceTharoor a former union minister was chargesheeted by Delhi Police under Sections 498A husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty and 306 abetment of suicide of the Indian Penal Code IPCEarlier Public Prosecutor Atul Srivastava stressed that Pushkar has undergone mental cruelty which led to her bad health The Public Prosecutor also argued that it was not an accidental death and relied on the postmortem report which suggests that the cause of death was poisoning which could be oral or injectedSrivastava had also said that due to the mental cruelty caused to Pushkar her health became worse He further added that Pushkar was not facing any health issues earlier but problems begun due to stress and betrayalAdvocate Pahwa earlier submitted that prosecutors are not able to establish evidence against the leader and the theory of injecting poison is in the air and can not be admissibleTharoors lawyer also read the statement by Sunandas son recorded under section 161 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in which he had said In the Mortuary of AIIMS I asked the doctor who conducted the post mortem about the case of death he doctor responded that there is no foul play or poisoning but the same doctor later went to the media and said that death is due to poisoning Shashi cant harm even a flyThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever