New Delhi: Delhi Police stepped up their investigations into Sunanda Pushkar’s death after it released a report on Tuesday which proclaimed she was poisoned.
The report states Pushkar was in deep, restive sleep at the time of her death which may infer to the fact that she was murdered.
The report also said she was not suffering from any form of a disease or disorder at the time of her death. The AIIMS report said she did not have any cardiac problem, hypertension or tuberculosis.
A SIT has been formed to investigate the death of Pushkar after the findings of the AIIMS report.Â
The police will meet with Sunanda’s doctors in Kerala and will be questioning her husband, former Union Minister, Shashi Tharoor.
The AIIMS medical report also spoke of bruises on her body. Earlier there were claims Sunanda was on anti-depressants and strong medications for illnesses. The report found she was not suffering with any illness during her death and so claims by Tharoor of Sunanda having lupus was also unfounded.
In a letter addressed to Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi on November 11, 2014, Tharoor stated his displeasure with the police’s methodologies of investigation citing the alleged physical assault of his domestic help by the police during the investigation.
Head of the Forensic Department at AIIMS, Dr Sudhir Gupta, stayed away from calling the death a ‘homicide’ but instead stood by the police and there investigation.
Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in a hotel room on January 17, 2014. Interestingly, the CCTV cameras were turned off on the floor she was staying in.
After the initial autopsy report stated that her death was due to poisoning, a subsequent report from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory, however, had ruled out any traces of poison in her body.