Delhi police has received the medical board’s ‘advice’ on the FBI lab report on viscera samples of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, to identify the cause of her death.
Sources have told IBNLive that Congress MP Shashi Tharoor will be questioned by the Special Investigating Team in connection with the death case of his wife Sunanda Pushkar, said sources on Friday.
Her viscera samples were sent to the FBI lab in Washington DC in February last year to determine the kind of poison that killed her after an AIIMS medical board identified poisoning as the reason behind her death but did not mention any specific substance.
The FBI report virtually rules out the theory that ‘polonium poisoning’ caused her death. However, after Delhi police failed to draw any conclusion on the basis of the findings, the report was handed over to a medical board for examination before further proceedings in the high-profile case.
So far conducted polygraph test have been conducted on six persons, all prime witnesses in the case, including Tharoors’ domestic help Narayan Singh, driver Bajrangi and Sanjay Dewan, a close friend of the couple. Tharoor has also been questioned.
Sunanda was found dead in her suite at a five-star hotel in January 2014, a day after she was involved in a spat with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar on Twitter over the latter’s alleged affair with Tharoor, the Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram.
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