Sunanda Pushkar death: Delhi HC to resume hearing today

ANI  |  New Delhi [India] 

The High on Thursday will resume hearing in connection with the mysterious death of leader Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar, at a suite in Delhi's Leela hotel.

The delay in investigation was caused by the delay in de-sealing of the suite.

The hotel suite was finally de-sealed on October 16, three years after the room was sealed for investigation.

The Police, which was vested with the responsibility of de-sealing the suite, has on several occasions come under the fire of judiciary, for delaying the task.

On October 10, Police was granted six days to comply with court's earlier order to de-seal Hotel Leela's suite no. 345, as the police reasoned it awaited from the forensic laboratories.

The (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy, earlier this year, on July 6 had filed a PIL in the High seeking a court-monitored enquiry into the mysterious death of Pushkar.

He has now demanded to make the (ED) a party in the case and the matter has also to be investigated under the PMLA.

Pushkar, wife of leader Shashi Tharoor, was found dead at a suite in a five star hotel in South on the night of January 17, 2014.

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First Published: Thu, October 26 2017. 07:22 IST