This story is from July 18, 2016

Sunanda Pushkar case may remain unsolved

TOI has learnt, may put the Sunanda case in the list of unsolved mysteries if it fails to get any concrete evidence in the next few weeks.
Sunanda Pushkar case may remain unsolved
Shashi Tharoor and Sunanda Pushkar.
New Delhi: Delhi Police, TOI has learnt, may put the Sunanda case in the list of unsolved mysteries if it fails to get any concrete evidence in the next few weeks.
However, as an FIR under IPC 302 (murder) has been filed, a chargesheet will have to be filed in the case.
Cops are waiting for the opinion of the new medical board formed in the case and may ask Shashi Tharoor to undergo a lie-detector test in their "final bid" to solve the mystery.
in which the police have failed to get any breakthrough.
Till date, they have treated Tharoor's help, driver and friend as suspects but nobody has been named an accused.
Delhi Police had tapped the phones of at least five people, including Tharoor's close associates, suspecting a foreign hand. Several people have already been put through polygraph test.
Calling domestic help Narain Singh, driver Bajrangi and Tharoor's friend, Sanjay Dewan, suspects, the police had told a court that "all three... didn't disclose several issues related to the death".
These suspects are "well acquainted with the facts in the case", the police claimed, but remained silent about a power cut around 7pm on January 17 in the hotel suite "just before the discovery of Sunanda's death".
The investigators had also found that repair at Tharoor's 97, Lodhi Estate house was over before Sunanda reached Delhi on January 15. But all three suspects told them that Sunanda had stayed in the hotel as the work was not over.
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Raj Shekhar

Raj Shekhar Jha is an assistant editor with The Times of India, Delhi. He has been writing on internal security and crime for TOI since 2011.

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