Sunanda Pushkar death case: I have nothing to hide, says Tharoor

Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram and former union minister Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday dismissed a television channel’s “expose” on the 2014 death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar as “a series of lies and distortions” and an attempt to exploit a personal tragedy.

Speaking to reporters here, Tharoor said he has been cooperating with the police on investigation in the case and had nothing to hide. “Let the police conclude their work, go to the courts and let the courts come to a conclusion,” he said. Tharoor, while endorsing the media’s role as a witness, maintained that it did not have a role of being “prosecutor, judge and executioner”.

Later, he tweeted: “Pathetic2see the depths2which some will sink2attract TRPs. I have nothing to hide from the police&the courts but nothing to say2such people”.

The private channel on Monday released a series of recorded mobile phone conversations with Tharoor’s aides that it claimed pointed to discrepancies in evidence collected ahead of the investigation. Soon, the MP hit back at the channel challenging it to prove the “false claims” in a court of law. He also termed the reportage an “exasperating farrago of distortions, misrepresentations and outright lies”.