Trial against Shashi Tharoor to begin today in Sunanda Pushkar case

The Patiala Court (Sessions Court), on Thursday, will hear the Sunanda Puskar death case which was referred to it by the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court.

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy had filed a petition in the Patiala House Courts, seeking a direction to Delhi Police to produce the report of a vigilance inquiry conducted in the Pushkar case.

On February 4 this year, the Patiala House Court sent the case for trial after dismissing Swamy’s plea seeking to assist the court in the matter. 

The court had also directed the documents related to this case to be handed over to the accused. 

MP Shashi Tharoor is the accused in the death case of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.

Earlier, Pushkar's death was considered a suicide, but later, Subramanian Swamy claimed that Pushkar had been murdered. 

Later, the Patiala House Court accused Tharoor of his wife's death. The Court, on the basis of a charge sheet, had accused Shashi Tharoor of inciting suicide and had then issued an order. 

Meanwhile, Sunanda Pushkar died on January 17, 2014, in a five-star hotel in Delhi.

Delhi police, later on, January 1, 2015, filed a charge sheet and accused Tharoor of abetment to suicide.

Then on the basis of technical examination, Tharoor has been charged under sections 498-A (husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty) and 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), but has not been arrested in the case.

The Thiruvananthapuram MP was granted regular bail last year.