NEW DELHI: Union minister Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead mysteriously in a five-star hotel in the Capital on Friday.
President, Prime Minister and senior leaders from all parties condoled her death as Delhi Police is yet to ascertain what caused the death.
Sunanda was last seen in the hotel lobby around 3.30 pm on Friday. Her body was discovered by hotel authorities who informed Tharoor and police.
A senior police officer said they have sought CCTV footage for the previous 12 hours but did not confirm if any suicide note was recovered.
Sunanda had denied any problem with Tharoor after media reports suggested all were not well between the couple who were involved in a Twitter controversy.
The Union minister was reportedly in affairs with a woman journalist from Pakistan who was told to be an ISI agent. Leaders from Kerala had also demanded a CBI probe into the minister’s relations with her.
Following the media reports, the controversy-prone minister had said on Twitter with his wife that they were “happily married”, but distressed by “some unauthorised tweets”.
Pushkar had accused the 45-year-old Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar of stalking her husband and trying to “break” her marriage when she was away for medical treatment. Both Tharoor and Pushkar had married twice before.
Tarar wrote on Twitter in the evening that she was shocked after getting the news of her death.
“I just woke up and read this. I’m absolutely shocked. This is too awful for words,” said Tarar.
