New Delhi, 18/8: Delhi’s Rouse Avenue District Court has acquitted Congress leader Shashi Tharoor of all charges in the Sunanda Pushkar death case. According to the English newspaper The Hindu, after the verdict was pronounced, Shashi Tharoor said, ‘Many thanks your honour. It’s been seven and a half years of torture. I appreciate this decision.’ Special Judge Justice Geetanjali Goel passed the order while hearing through online medium. Expressing gratitude to the judge, Tharoor said that the last seven-and-a-half years have been spent in “torture” and the verdict has brought a “huge relief”.
The police urged the court to frame charges in various charges, including Section 306 (abetment to suicide) of the Indian Penal Code, while senior advocate Vikas Pahwa, appearing for Tharoor, told the court that the investigation conducted by the SIT found the political leader. absolves him of all the charges leveled against him.
Pushkar was found dead in a room of a luxury hotel in the city on the night of 17 January 2014. The couple was staying at the hotel as Tharoor’s official bungalow was being renovated at that time. Tharoor was charged by the Delhi Police under sections 498A (cruelty to woman by husband or relative of husband) and section 306 of the Indian Penal Code, but no arrests were made in the case. He was granted bail on July 5, 2018.
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