Sunanda Pushkar death case adjourned to Jan 9

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Sunanda Pushkar

Patiala House court on Monday deferred the hearing of Sunanda Pushkar death case to January 8 owing to further compliance under section 207 CrPC.

The court also postponed order on two applications of Subramanian Swamy’s seeking direction to Delhi Police to produce vigilance inquiry report.

The Delhi Police has chargesheeted Shashi Tharoor, husband of Sunanda Pushkar under Sections 498A and 306 of the Indian Penal Code, relating to abetment to suicide and brutality to wife.

Pushkar was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a suite at a Hotel in Delhi on January 17, 2014. It is believed that due to Tharoor’s alleged affair with a Pakistani journalist, Pushkar either committed suicide or murdered.

—India Legal Bureau