New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor will face trial in the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar, a Delhi court said today.
The Congress MP has been summoned by a Delhi court on July 7 as an accused party. Today, a Delhi court set the date for his summons after taking cognizance of the chargesheet filed in the Pushkar death case.
“There exist sufficient grounds to proceed against Tharoor for commission of offences in the case,” said the court.
Last month, four years after Pushkar was found dead in suite number 345 of the Leela Hotel, the Delhi Police filed a chargesheet and named her husband and Congress MP Tharoor as an accused in the case. According to the chargesheet, Pushkar killed herself by consuming an overdose of antidepressant pills, alprazolam (Alprax), and was driven to taking the extreme step by her husband.