Delhi's Patiala House Court has granted anticipatory bail on a surety of Rs 1 lakh to Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in connection with the Sunanda Pushkar death case. He can't leave India without the Court's permission. On Tuesday, Tharoor had moved an anticipatory bail plea in the same Court. The following day, Patiala House Court had reserved its order on Tharoor's bail plea, and Special Investigation Team (SIT) had opposed his plea in the Patiala Court.

Speaking to ANI on Tharoor's bail, Subramanian Swamy said, "Yes, he can't go out of the country and see all his girlfriends in various parts of the world. There is nothing for Shashi Tharoor to celebrate. He is not in Tihar jail, he can sit with Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, they are also bail-wallas."

On June 5, a special Patiala House court summoned Shashi Tharoor in connection with Sunanda Pushkar death case. The court took cognisance of the charge sheet, filed by the Delhi police against Tharoor and asked him to appear before it on July 7 saying that it has enough evidence to begin the trail.

According to the charge sheet filed by the Delhi Police, the Senior Congress leader has been charged with committing offences under sections 306 (abetment of suicide) and 498A (cruelty) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). If convicted under the former section, Tharoor will get ten years of imprisonment. Pushkar was found dead in a hotel room in New Delhi on the night of January 17, 2014

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