Shashi Tharoor named as an accused of Sunanda Pushkar death case

Mr. Tharoor has been named as an accused in the case. The Delhi Police on Monday filed a charge sheet in the death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor.

The charge sheet was filed before Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmender Singh under sections 498A (husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty) and 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code.

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Pushkar was found dead in a luxury hotel room in New Delhi on January 17, 2014.