Shashi Tharoor named in Sunanda Pushkar death charges

New Delhi: Delhi Police on Monday filed charges in the death of Sunanda Pushkar and named her widower Shashi Tharoor, a Congress MP, as one of the accused.

The charges were filed in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmender Singh under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections of husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty and abetment of suicide.

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