HC seeks Swamy's reply on plea of Sunanda Pushkar's son

Press Trust of India  |  New Delhi 

The High today sought response of Subramanian Swamy on a plea moved by MP Shashi Tharoor's stepson Shiv Menon seeking intervention in the leader's plea for a court-monitored CBI-led SIT probe into the death of Sunanda Pushkar.

A bench of Justices G S Sistani and Chander Shekhar also issued notice to Police and sought their stand by August 1 on Menon's plea which also said that the investigating agency should be directed not to supply Swamy the copy of the status report with regard to the ongoing probe into Pushkar's death.


The bench said it is not going to pass any restraint order and Menon's questioning the locus standi of Swamy will be decided after the parties are heard.

Senior advocate Vikas Pahwa has moved the on behalf of Menon in a pending filed by Swamy seeking probe in the death of Pushkar.

Pushkar was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a suite of a five-star hotel in south here on the night of January 17, 2014.

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