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New Delhi, Jul 7 : Congress leader Shashi Tharoor was today granted regular bail by a Delhi court in his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death case.

The Thiruvananthapuram MP, who was summoned as an accused in the case, appeared before the court and informed it that he had already been granted anticipatory bail by a sessions court on July 5.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal then directed him to furnish a bail bond of Rs 1 lakh and one surety of like amount as directed by the sessions court and converted the interim relief to regular bail.

Tharoor had moved the sessions court for anticipatory bail apprehending arrest.

Pushkar was found dead in a suite of a luxury hotel in the city on the night of January 17, 2014. The couple was staying in the hotel, as the official bungalow of Shashi Tharoor was being renovated at that time.PTI



 New Delhi, May 14 :  Delhi Police on Monday filed a charge sheet in a Patiala House Court in connection with the death case of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Indian National Congress leader Shashi Tharoor.
Sunanda Pushkar was found dead on January 17, 2014, in a luxury hotel room in the Capital.
Delhi Police, after investigation, filed a charge sheet before Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmender Singh under the provisions of Indian Penal Code.
The police filed a charge sheet under sections 498 A (husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty) and 306 (abetment of suicide) of the IPC. Tharoor has been arrayed as an accused in the case.
The Magistrate set May 24 for the next hearing.UNI
Delhi High Court today directed Delhi Police to submit a status report within three days on the Sunanda Pushkar death case. Sunanda Pushkar was wife of Congress Leader Shashi Tharoor. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Leader Subramanian Swamy had filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in Delhi High Court and submitted that there was an “inordinate delay” in the probe.


New Delhi, Jul 20 :  Delhi High Court today directed Delhi Police to submit a status report within three days on the Sunanda Pushkar death case. Sunanda Pushkar was wife of Congress Leader Shashi Tharoor. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Leader Subramanian Swamy had filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in Delhi High Court and submitted that there was an “inordinate delay” in the probe. Swamy submitted before the court that “Sunanda Pushkar’s case was an extreme example of the slow-motion of the criminal justice process and the extent to which it could be subverted by the rich and influential. In the meantime, South Delhi Hotel has filed a plea to de-seal suite number 345 that was sealed on January 17, 2014, after Pushkar’s body was found there. The court has ordered the police to reply the plea of South Delhi Hotel to de-seal the said suite. Delhi High Court Justices GS Sistani and Chander Shekhar today directed the Delhi Police to submit a status report within three days. The court further directed Ministry of Home Affairs, CBI and Delhi Police to specify the current status of the case and adjourned the matter for August 1. UNI