NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police on Wednesday formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor.
“We have formed an SIT to probe the Sunanda Pushkar case,” Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi told reporters.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Delhi Police registered a murder case after a medical report said the death was unnatural and due to poisoning. The police have, however, not named any suspect.
Bassi said the conclusions made in a medical report submitted by a panel at AIIMS on December 29 necessitated registration of a murder case.
Bassi said the report found that the poison was either injected or fed orally. An injection mark on the body made the possibility of it being self-inflicted remote.
Bassi said that if needed, Tharoor would be called for questioning, which, sources said, could take place in a day or two.
A medical board of AIIMS constituted to conduct the post-mortem examination concluded on September 30 that the death was due to poisoning. The Delhi Police had sought clarifications from the board. The medical team conducted the autopsy along with teams from the Central Forensic Sciences Laboratory and the police. The evidence collected by the teams was incorporated into the December report based on which a first information report under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code was registered.
The report, prepared by the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after studying the viscera report, contradicts the preliminary finding that the death was caused by an “overdose of alprax.”
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