Shashi Tharoor charged with abetment to suicide in Sunanda Pushkar death case

New Delhi: Delhi Police today filed a charge sheet in the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor.

Tharoor has been arrayed as an accused in the case.

The charge sheet was filed before Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmender Singh under sections 498 A (husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty) and 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code.

Pushkar was found dead in a luxury hotel room on January 17, 2014.