New Delhi, July 3: In connection with the Sunanda Pushkar death case, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has moved an anticipatory bail plea in Delhi's Patiala House Court.  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.

As per 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.

Tharoor had termed the charges against him in connection with the death of his wife as baseless. In a statement, he said, “I find the charges preposterous and baseless, the product of malicious and vindictive campaign against myself”.

Pushkar was found dead in a hotel room in New Delhi on the night of January 17, 2014. In an email written to her husband, she had said, “I have no desire to live…all I pray for is death,”. Reports by the Police informed that Sunanda’s death was due to poisoning and 27 tablets of Alprax were found in her room but it was not clear how many pills she had consumed.

In a nearly 3,000-page charge sheet, the police named Tharoor as the only accused while also alleging that he had subjected his wife to cruelty. Earlier in May, a Delhi court had transferred the Sunanda Pushkar death case, in which her husband Shashi Tharoor has been chargesheeted for abetting her suicide, to a special court designated to try lawmakers.

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