‘Sunanda wrote she had no desire to live’
“I have no desire to live...all I pray for is death,” Sunanda Pushkar wrote in an e-mail to her husband Shashi Tharoor nine days before she was found dead in a luxury hotel room in Delhi, police told a court on Monday.
Sunanda’s mail and messages on social media have been taken as a “dying declaration”, Delhi Police told Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal, who reserved for June 5 its order on whether to summon Tharoor as an accused in the case.
The Delhi police also told the court that Sunanda’s death was due to poisoning and 27 tablets of Alprax were found in her room but it was not clear how many pills she had consumed.
The Delhi Police had on May 14 accused the Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram, of abetting Pushkar’s suicide and urged the court he be summoned as an accused in the four-and-half yearold case, claiming there was sufficient evidence against him.
In a nearly 3,000-page charge sheet, the police has named Tharoor as the only accused while also alleging that he had subjected his wife to cruelty.The couple’s domestic servant, Narayan Singh, has been named one of the key witnesses in the case.
The Delhi high court on Monday accepted the apology tendered by dissident Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kumar Vishwas for levelling allegations against Union minister Arun Jaitley.
Jaitley had lodged the ~10 crore defamation suit in December 2015 against Kejriwal and the five AAP leaders after they had alleged financial irregularities in the Delhi and District Cricket Association when the Union minister was its president.
The BJP leader had denied all the allegations.
Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw noted that Vishwas, in a letter submitted in the court on Monday, has without any reservation, unequivocally withdrawn all the allegations levelled against the leader.
The court disposed of the suit in which Vishwas was the only one against whom the defamation suit remained after Kejriwal and four other AAP leaders tendered unequivocal apology to Jaitley.
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