A Delhi court today summoned Congress leader Shashi Tharoor as an accused in the case related to his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death and asked him to appear before it on July 7, saying there were sufficient grounds to proceed against him.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal took cognisance of the offences of alleged abetment of suicide and committing cruelty by Mr Tharoor towards Pushkar.

On May 28, the court had reserved its order on whether to summon him as an accused in the case.

The Delhi Police had on May 14 accused the Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram of abetting Pushkar's suicide and told a city court that he should be summoned as an accused in the four-and-half-year-old case.

In a nearly 3,000-page charge sheet, the police has named Mr Tharoor as the only accused while also alleging that he had subjected his wife to cruelty.

The couple's domestic servant, Narayan Singh, has been named one of the key witnesses in the case. Pushkar was found dead in a luxury hotel room on the night of January 17, 2014.