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Shashi Tharoor says chargesheet filed in Sunanda Pushkar death case ‘preposterous’
Shashi Tharoor has been charged under sections 498 A (husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty) and 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday called the chargesheet filed by the Delhi Police accusing him of abetting the suicide of his wife Sunanda Pushkar “preposterous” and termed the action “unbelievable”.
Tharoor tweeted he will contest the chargesheet “vigorously” and hit out at Delhi Police saying, “If that was the conclusion arrived at after four plus years of investigation, it does not speak well of the methods or motivations of Delhi Police”.
“No one, who knew Sunanda, believes she would ever have committed suicide, let alone abetment on my part,” he said.
Tharoor, the Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram, is the only person who has been named as an accused in the case.
The police in its charge sheet, which runs into around 3,000 pages, has also alleged that Tharoor had subjected his wife to cruelty.
The police filed the charge sheet in the case before Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmendra Singh, who will consider it on May 24.
It also urged the court to summon Tharoor as an accused.
The Congress leader has been charged under sections 498 A (husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty) and 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code.
Pushkar was found dead in a luxury hotel room in south Delhi on the night of January 17, 2014.
