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Tharoor’s days numbered?
The murder investigation into Sunanda Puskhar\'s death must be conducted \"without any predetermined outcome or political pressure,\" her husband and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Friday at an ayurvedic resort in Kerala, where he completes a 14-day treatment.
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New Delhi: The murder investigation into Sunanda Puskhar's death must be conducted "without any predetermined outcome or political pressure," her husband and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Friday at an ayurvedic resort in Kerala, where he completes a 14-day treatment.
Tharoor, 58, described himself as "a bereaved husband", and said his silence on the investigation should not be construed as "sinister". He said he doesn't want to make public statements which would undermine or compromise the police inquiry. However ,the Parliamentarian from Kerala said that he wrote on Thursday to Delhi Police Commissioner BN Bassi outlining his concerns about an investigation which, he said, has sometimes been fringed with "outright lies".
B S Bassi said they will be able to provide some "definitive input" in three to four days in Sunanda death case, a day after the SIT quizzed her husband Shashi Tharoor's domestic help. He said the Special Investigation Team is now going to look into "each and every aspect".
Answering questions regarding media reports about a mystery man meeting Sunanda Pushkar two days before her death, he said, "Many things will happen and of course many a times you may not be getting precise information, so better wait for some time and as and when we will get something very definitive, we will share it with you."
Tharoor tweeted:” thanks to 100s of you for your concern, faith and solidarity. For the others, if you know there was a murderer, tell the police, not Twitter. Public discussion of issues within the scope of the police inquiry risks compromising a fair and impartial investigation. Hence my silence for a year."
"I have been the one who has been remaining silent on the issue. I could not engage myself in a public debate on the issue. I, my personal staff and the personal staff of my wife Sunanda Pushkar will fully cooperate with the police probe.
There's yet another twist to the murder mystery. Media reports say that Tharoor's domestic help Narayan Singh told the Delhi police that a man named 'Sunil' had visited Sunanda Pushkar at the Hotel Leela Palace two days before she was found dead.
Two senior former UPA ministers Ghulam Nabi Azad and Sushil Kumar Shinde are likely to be questioned by the Delhi Police, according to senior officials.
The police want to know whether there was any pressure from Shinde, the then home minister, on the Delhi Police to go slow on the investigation of Pushkar's death. Or whether he was prodded by the party high command to scuttle the case.
The links, if any, will be exposed by early February. Shashi Tharoor, meanwhile, is expected to be back in Delhi by Sunday and is likely to be questioned in the case.
The Delhi police said they would question Tharoor's friend and Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar about her online spat with Sunanda in the days before the latter's death by poisoning.
