The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the police to file a status report on a plea for cancellation of the anticipatory bail granted to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor in a January 2014 case pertaining to the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.

Justice R.K. Gauba's direction came on advocate Deepak Anand's plea for cancellation of the anticipatory bail granted by a sessions court on July 5 to Tharoor, who is accused of abetment to suicide.