Sunanda Pushkar death case transferred to special court

A Delhi court on Thursday, 24 May, transferred the Sunanda Pushkar death case, in which her husband and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has been chargesheeted for abetting her suicide, to a special court designated to try lawmakers.

Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmendra Singh transferred the case to Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal, who will take up the matter on 28 May.

"Since he is a sitting Member of Parliament, matter is being sent to the special designated court for



politicians, that is ACMM Samar Vishal. Matter be taken up on May 28," the court said.

The Delhi Police had on 14 May accused Tharoor, a Lok Sabha MP representing Thiruvananthapuram, of abetting Pushkar's suicide, and told a city court that he should be summoned as an accused in the four-and-a-half-year-old case, claiming there was sufficient evidence against him.

In a nearly 3,000-page chargesheet, police named Tharoor as the only accused while also alleging that he had subjected his wife to cruelty.