Police team in US to bring back Sunanda’s viscera samples

New Delhi, Sep 20 (PTI) A Delhi Police team probing themysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress leaderShashi Tharoor, is in the US to collect her viscera samplesthat have been lying with an FBI lab for nearly a year now. The team is likely to return by the end of the week. TheUS agency has already given its report which will be discussedwith a medical board, a senior police officer said. It is just a routine exercise to bring back the sampleslying with the FBI lab. The team will also seek details onsome points mentioned in the US probe agency’s lab report, hesaid. The step was taken after the Ministry of Home Affairs in aletter reminded Delhi Police to get the samples back as wasasked by the FBI lab. 51-year-old Sunanda was found dead at a suite in afive-star hotel in South Delhi on the night of January 17,2014, a day after her spat with Pakistani journalist MehrTarar on Twitter over her alleged affair with Tharoor, theCongress MP from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. Delhi Police had in January last year registered a case ofmurder in connection with Sunanda’s death. An AIIMS medicalboard had earlier found poisoning as reason for her deathfollowing which the police had sent her viscera samples to theFBI lab in the US. The FBI lab report, sent to Delhi Police in November lastyear, endorsed the findings of the AIIMS forensic report. Aspolice could not firm up about cause of the death based on theFBI report, they requested a medical board of AIIMS to analyseits content. Several persons including Shashi Tharoor have beenquestioned in connection with Sunanda’s death. The police havealso conducted polygraph test on six persons, all primewitnesses in the case, including Tharoor’s domestic helpNarayan Singh, driver Bajrangi and Sanjay Dewan, a closefriend of the couple. In February, Tarar was questioned about her relation withthe Congress leader and his wife, her fight with Sunanda overTwitter, and other issues revolving around Sunanda’s death.PTIVIT SLB GVS RTGVS