Delhi court summoned Shashi Tharoor on July 7 in his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death case.

A Delhi court on Tuesday summoned Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on July 7 as an accused in his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death case.

Pushkar was found dead in a luxury hotel room in south Delhi on the night of January 17, 2014.

Taking cognizance of the charge sheet, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal said, “there exist sufficient grounds to proceed against Tharoor for the commission of offences in the case.”

The Delhi Police in its chargesheet filed in May had accused the Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram, of abetting Pushkar’s suicide and told a city court that he should be summoned as an accused in the four-and-half year-old case, saying that there was sufficient evidence against him.

In a nearly 3,000-page



charge sheet, the police has named Tharoor as the only accused while alleging that he had subjected his wife to cruelty.

Tharoor called the charge sheet “preposterous” and termed the action “unbelievable”.

Tharoor tweeted he will contest the charge sheet “vigorously” and hit out at Delhi Police saying, “If that was the conclusion arrived at after four plus years of investigation, it does not speak well of the methods or motivations of Delhi Police”.

“No one, who knew Sunanda, believes she would ever have committed suicide, let alone abetment on my part,” he said.

The Congress leader has been charged under sections 498 A (husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty) and 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code.