The Delhi Police have handed over the laptop and mobile phones of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s deceased wife Sunanda Pushkar to Gandhinagar-based Directorate of Forensic Science, to retrieve crucial data which could help the ongoing probe into her death.
After Mr. Tharoor was questioned on Monday by the Special Investigation Team to probe the circumstances leading to the mysterious death of Sunanda a year ago, the Delhi Police on Tuesday handed over her laptop and four mobile phones to the DFS for further analysis.
“Officials of the Delhi Police came to the DFS on Tuesday and handed over one laptop and four mobile phones, which were used by Ms. Pushkar before her death, in a sealed cover,” DFS Director J M Vyas said. “We have been given the task to examine them and extract crucial information to help the ongoing investigation by the police,” Mr. Vyas said.
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In a related development, a few journalists with whom Sunanda Pushkar had talked to hours before her death in January last year will be questioned by Delhi Police which is in the process of analysing the veracity of the statement made by her husband Shashi Tharoor during questioning.
The Special Investigation Team of the Delhi Police has also got a new piece of information that Sunanda had gone out of a five-star hotel in Delhi, a day after she checked into it on January 15 last year, and are probing the details.
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Fifty-two-year-old Sunanda was found dead in a room in the hotel on January 17 last year. The Delhi Police filed a case of murder on January 1 and an SIT was formed to probe the case. Police sources on Wednesday said that some journalists with whom Sunanda had talked over phone in the last 48 hours of her life have been called in for questioning. — PTI