The Department of Forensic, Medicine and Toxicology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has in its latest viscera report of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of former Union Minister of State Shashi Tharoor, submitted to the Delhi Police recently said that it is “reserving its comment on specific poison/chemical since there is a lot of limitations”.
It has, however, ended speculation about various ailments that she was allegedly suffering from. Interpretation of the medical documents of Ms. Pushkar, according to AIIMS doctors, has shown that she was not suffering from hypertension, diabetes and tuberculosis, and had no disease that affected her brain, lung, liver or kidney.
Found normal“The deceased was thoroughly investigated for various autoimmune/connective tissue disorder, and was found to be normal. Ms. Puskar was also investigated for Systemic Lupud Erythematosus (SLE) and she was not found to be suffering from LUPUS,” stated the AIIMS report. The AIIMS group of doctors, who finalised the report (senior resident Shashank Pooniya, additional professor Adarsh Kumar, and professor and head of forensic medicine Sudhir K.Gupta), said there are six poisons that are difficult/can’t be detected by their forensic laboratory.
They have listed – Thallium, Polonium-210, Nerlum oleander, snake bites, photolabile poisons, and heroin – as difficult/can’t be detected.
“Listed among the possibility (of poison) is Polonium-210, a rare and highly radioactive isotope, which is hard to detect because all the radiation remains in the body. A lethal dose could be as little as a few milligrams, which could be administered as a powder or dissolved in liquid/drinks. Also heroin is very difficult to detect as it rapidly hydrolyses,” said AIIMS report.
