SIT to grill Tharoor on Sunanda Pushkar murder

New Delhi: Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi on Wednesday said that former minister Shashi Tharoor will be questioned once again by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in connection with his wife Sunanda Pushkar's murder.

Tharoor's domestic help Narain Singh will be reportedly questioned by the SIT today.

"We have examined every statement of the witnesses in the case. Shashi Tharoor will be summoned again tomorrow; we need to obtain some clarification from him. We will inform the media if there is any new development in the case," said Bassi.

Earlier in January, Tharoor was interrogated at the Vasant Vihar police station in South Delhi. He was asked over 50 questions by a team of four officers in the first of three likely rounds of interrogation.

The police had earlier in January said that based on available evidence, Sunanda Pushkar, 51, was poisoned. A case of murder was registered on January 6.

Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in the five-star Leela Hotel in Delhi on January 17, 2014.

She was married to Tharoor for a little less than four years. It was the third marriage for both. Before her death, Pushkar had publicly accused Tharoor of having an affair with a Pakistani journalist, Mehr Tarar.

Initially, her death was debated as a possible suicide for months, and it was only this month, that a murder theory began to be considered seriously after doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) maintained that her demise was unnatural.

Tharoor has been demanding that the investigation must be "free of political pressure or a pre-determined outcome."