The Delhi High Court has refused to grant urgent hearing to a plea seeking its intervention in the ongoing probe into the mysterious death of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar.
A Bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva declined the request of NGO Anti-Corruption Front to hear the plea accusing the police of bias.
“There is no such urgency as asked by you. Let it (PIL) come or be listed then the court will hear it,” the Bench said after the counsel for the NGO requested for an urgent hearing in the matter.
The PIL alleged that the probe agency was biased as a result of which there had been no development in the case, which makes it a reason enough for the court to intervene.
The plea filed against the Ministry of Home Affairs, CBI and Delhi Police said that police had registered an FIR almost a year after the incident, despite clear guidelines by the Supreme Court and High Courts that on receiving information disclosing commission of a cognisable offence, an FIR should be registered without any delay.
“Even the investigating agency found it is a clear case of murder but till date it is in dark. Even one year after the incident occurred in a five star hotel here, no convincing conclusion has come out,” the PIL said.
A special investigation team has been constituted by the Delhi Police to probe Ms. Pushkar’s death after registering an FIR in the case on January 1. The FIR was based on Ms. Pushkar's third autopsy report by the AIIMS medical board.
The police have questioned Lok Sabha MP Tharoor, a former UN diplomat and ex-Union Minister on the night of December 19.
