The FBI sent its report to Delhi Police last year, which ruled out the theory of her death due to radiation. The report said the radiation levels in Sunanda's viscera samples were "within the standard safety norms" besides mentioning other details.
The case of Sunanda Pushkar's death is getting more curious. An independent medical board comprising doctors from Delhi, Chandigarh and Puducherry studied two earlier reports and the report on the cause of her death, but has failed to arrive at any conclusion.
Last year, then Delhi Police chief BS Bassi had confessed that the death of Pushkar, wife of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, was not natural but didn't elaborate further. The initial viscera report had suggested a drug overdose followed by high alcohol consumption, giving credence to the suicide theory. But the autopsy report suggested some multiple injuries including ones in her private parts, neck, and intestine. A medical board comprising doctors of AIIMS found poisoning as the reason behind her death following which the police in 2015 sent her viscera samples to a FBI lab in Washington.
The FBI sent its report to Delhi Police last year, which ruled out the theory of her death due to radiation. The report said the radiation levels in Sunanda's viscera samples were "within the standard safety norms" besides mentioning other details.
As police could not confirm the cause of her death based on the FBI report, they requested a medical board of AIIMS to analyse the contents of the report on her viscera samples. The board unanimously concluded that there was a presence of anxiety drug Alprax in her stomach. The SIT later submitted both the FBI as well as the AIIMS reports to a new independent medical panel comprising doctors from Delhi, Chandigarh, and Puducherry. But in that report, the panel made matters more curious, saying the cause of her death is inconclusive.
The police team probing the case has so far questioned at least 15 people. Tharoor, his staff members, and close friends were among those questioned by Delhi Police. Sunanda's son Shiv Menon was also interrogated by the SIT.
"The medical board submitted its report a month back and they have failed to give any conclusive results. We have asked them to study the findings of FBI and AIIMS again to draw a conclusion," a senior police officer said. Police is now waiting for retrieval of deleted chats from Sunanda's phone.
In September, Sunanda's viscera samples were brought back from a FBI lab in the US by the members of a Delhi Police team probing the high profile case.The Delhi Police had also asked the FBI lab to submit its final list of observations so that they can be produced before a medical board.
Sunanda, 51, was found dead at a suite in a five-star hotel in South Delhi on the night of January 17, 2014, a day after her spat with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar on Twitter over her alleged affair with Tharoor. Police have also conducted polygraph test on six persons, all prime witnesses in the case, including Tharoor's domestic help Narayan Singh, driver Bajrangi, and Sanjay Dewan, a close friend of the couple. In February, Tarar was questioned about her relation with the Congress leader and his wife, her fight with Sunanda over Twitter, and other issues revolving around Sunanda's death.
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