New Delhi: A court on Tuesday admitted abetment to suicide charges against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor over the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar, saying there was “sufficient ground to proceed” against the politician.
Taking cognizance of the Delhi Police charge-sheet, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal asked Tharoor to appear before him on July 7.
“There exist sufficient grounds to proceed against Tharoor for commission of offences in the case,” said the court.
The cause of Sunanda Pushkar’s death was poisoning. A total of 27 tablets of Alprax were found in her room but it was not clear how many she had consumed.
On May 14, police chargesheeted Tharoor under sections 306 and 498A of the Indian Penal Code, pertaining to abetment to suicide and cruelty to wife, which entails a jail term that could extend up to 10 years.
Pushkar, 51, was found dead in a hotel suite here on January 17, 2014, days after she alleged that her husband was having an affair with a Pakistani journalist.
The FIR in Sunanda death case was filed under section 302 IPC.
Earleir, dismissing the police’s conclusion as “preposterous”, Tharoor said he would contest the charge-sheet.