Tag: Sunanda Pushkar
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A fairy tale gone awry
Sunanda Pushkar died on 17 January 2014 under mysterious circumstances, and till date this case remains an unsolved mystery. Her namesake, journalist Sunanda Mehta, traces out her tantalizing life story.
November 2, 2019 -
Sunanda Pushkar’s biography to release on July 26
The biography will release on July 26, its publisher Pan Macmillan announced, on Pushkar's 58th birth anniversary.
June 28, 2019 -
Sunanda Pushkar death: Delhi Court sends case against Shashi Tharoor to Sessions court
Tharoor, former Union minister and Pushkar's husband, has been charged under sections 498-A (husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty) and 306 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), but has not been arrested in the case.
February 4, 2019 -
Sunanda death: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor granted regular bail
Tharoor appeared before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal in pursuance of the summons issued against him in June.
July 7, 2018 -
Shashi Tharoor gets anticipatory bail in Sunanda Pushkar death case
A Delhi court on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor in the death case of his wife Sunanda Pushkar who was found dead in a room in Leela Palace Hotel, New Delhi, in January 2014. He had been summoned on July 7 as an accused in the case. Special …
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July 5, 2018 -
Tharoor moves court for anticipatory bail in Sunanda Pushkar case
Just days ahead of his appearance before the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in the Sunanda Pushkar death case, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor moved an anticipatory bail plea in the Patiala House Court in New Delhi on Tuesday.
July 3, 2018 -
Undying truths
We have nothing to say on whether or not Shashi Tharoor drove his wife, Sunanda Pushkar, to suicide. That is for the investigating agencies to establish, one way or another. But we do have reservations about treating Sunanda’s emails to Tharoor in the hours preceding her death as constituting a dying declaration. Insofar as this …
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June 6, 2018 -
Charges against me preposterous, baseless; will contest them: Tharoor
In a statement, Tharoor said he maintains steadfast conviction that ultimately the truth will prevail through the judicial system
June 5, 2018 -
Sunanda Pushkar death: Tharoor summoned as an accused on July 7
The police had made a case of abetment to suicide (Section 306 IPC) and domestic cruelty (Section 498A IPC) against Shashi Tharoor
June 5, 2018 -
Sunanda Pushkar death: Court reserves order on summoning Tharoor for June 5
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal was to decide on whether or not to summon Congress MP Shashi Tharoor
May 28, 2018 -
Pushkar death case charge sheet based on medico-legal, forensic evidence: Police
Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in a Delhi luxury hotel room on the night of 17 January 2014.
May 14, 2018 -
Tharoor can’t be ‘compelled to speak’ on Pushkar death, HC tells Republic TV
The Delhi High Court on Friday said that Republic TV news channel’s right to air stories on the death of Sunanda Pushkar cannot be curbed, but it has to be “tempered and balanced”, and that Congress MP Shashi Tharoor cannot be “compelled to speak”. The court also came down on the media, saying it cannot …
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December 1, 2017 -
Scathing snub
In his colourful and chequered political career Subramanian Swamy has been described as “maverick”, “firebrand”, “irrepressible” ~ and a few other things too impolite to print. He has taken them all in swaggering stride. It will, however, not be easy even for him to live down the scathing strictures delivered by the Delhi High Court …
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October 30, 2017 -
Delhi HC dismisses Swamy’s plea to probe Pushkar’s death
The Delhi High Court today dismissed BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s plea seeking a court-monitored SIT probe into the death of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar, terming his PIL as a “textbook example of a political interest litigation”. A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and I S Mehta said the petition by Swamy cannot …
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October 26, 2017 -
Pushkar death case: Police given 6 days to de-seal suite
The city police was on Tuesday granted six days’ time — till October 16 — by a Delhi court to comply with its order issued earlier to de-seal a five-star hotel suite where Congress leader Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead on the night of January 17, 2014, under mysterious circumstances. Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmender Singh …
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October 10, 2017 -
Pushkar death: Court seeks police report on hotel room unsealing
A court here on Tuesday asked Delhi Police to file a compliance report on its order to unseal a room in The Leela Palace hotel where former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in 2014. Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmender Singh said that if the police fails to file the report, a senior …
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October 10, 2017 -
Pushkar death: Court asks police why more time for room probe
A court here on Monday asked a senior Delhi Police officer to appear and explain why they needed more time for investigation of Room 345 of Hotel Leela Palace where former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in January 2014. Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmender Singh asked the Deputy Commissioner of Police concerned …
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September 4, 2017