The fresh forensic report stating that Sunanda Pushkar died of poisoning is "not conclusive", the Delhi police said on Friday.
"The forensic report is not conclusive. We have been doing whatever is required in the quest for the truth and will continue doing it," BS Bassi, police commissioner, told journalists.
The police chief was responding to suggestions by Sunanda's family members that the investigators had not done enough to prove the cause of her death, and said that the Delhi police was competent enough to carry out the probe.
Ashok Kumar, a cousin of Sunanda, said in an interview with Zee Media, that the death was not natural and demanded that the matter be handed over to the CBI.
"We knew it wasn't a natural death. It was all planned and we have been asking for a CBI probe. We knew that day, when they went to stay at the hotel, this was planned earlier," Kumar said.
Sunanda, 52, wife of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, was found lying dead in her room at a five-star hotel in the national capital on January 17 this year.
"Why would he (Shashi Tharoor) go for a meeting when she wasn't feeling well? Even cameras were not working at such a big hotel. It was all planned before hand,"
Now, questions will be asked all over again about the unexplained injection mark found on Sunanda's right wrist. It was listed as injury number 10 in the first autopsy report. This was first reported by dna in February. Kumar said. Tharror has refused to comment on the matter.
The Delhi police has not yet registered an FIR in the case. Doctors have criticized the police for not submitting circumstantial evidence and statements to the medical board.
The 12-page report titled 'Subsequent Medical Board Opinion', submitted to the police on September 30 by a panel of doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, said the board had again concluded as it did in its first report that Sunanda's death was caused by poisoning.
The board reserved its comment on the specific poison "due to a lot of limitations on the viscera report". "Viscera are positive for ethyl alcohol, caffeine, acetaminophen and cotinine," it said.
The first autopsy report, submitted to the sub-divisional magistrate in January, had stated that Sunanda died of a drug overdose. It also said that a mild, foul-smelling gas emanated from the body during dissection. The body had 15 injuries that were caused within the 12 hours before her death. Injury number 12 was said to have been caused by teeth bite.
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