Sunanda Pushkar death: Shashi Tharoor questioned for five hours, says he suspects no foul play

The Delhi Police on Saturday questioned Shashi Tharoor for nearly 5 hours in connection with the Sunanda Pushkar death case. 

During the interrogation, the Congress leader dismissed any foul play in his wife's death, according to a report in CNN-IBN.

Tharoor also claimed that Sunanda died due to medication and was quizzed on who purchased the medicines, said the report, quoting sources.

Meanwhile, a leading daily reported that the aim of the interrogation appeared not to probe the possibility of murder, but to ascertain if Tharoor or his associates could have abetted Pushkar's death.

Tharoor may have to undergo a lie-detector test in the coming weeks and investigators are expected to get the court's permission to conduct a polygraph test.

An AIIMS medical board had found poisoning as the reason for her death following which the police had sent her viscera samples to an FBI lab in the US.

Sunanda, who married Tharoor in 2010, was found dead under mysterious circumstances inside a room at the Leela Palace Hotel in Delhi on January 17, 2014.