Delhi Police Chief B S Bassi on Thursday said Congress MP Shashi Tharoor will be questioned again in connection with the murder of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.
Tharoor, who is in Jaipur attending the Lit Fest, was on Monday night questioned by a five member team of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) at Vasant Vihar police station. Tharoor was asked over 50 questions in the first of three likely rounds of interrogation.
Meanwhile, the police chief maintained that all those people relevant in the case are being examined by SIT probing the high-profile case.
Earlier on the day, the Delhi High Court refused to give an urgent hearing to a plea seeking its intervention in the ongoing probe into the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar.
A bench of Justices B D Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva declined the request of NGO Anti-Corruption Front to hear the plea saying “there is no urgency”.
“There is no such urgency as asked by you. Let it (PIL) come or be listed then the court will hear it,” the bench said after the counsel for the NGO requested for an urgent hearing in the matter.
The court’s refusal came when the PIL was mentioned on Thursday morning. It was alleged that the investigating agency was biased in probing the case so there was no positive or constructive development in the matter and in such a situation, there was cause and reason for the court to intervene.
The plea filed against Ministry of Home Affairs, CBI and Delhi Police said police had registered an FIR almost a year after the incident, despite clear guidelines by the Supreme Court and high courts that on receiving information disclosing commission of a cognisable offence, an FIR should be registered without any delay.
“Even the investigating agency found it is a clear case of murder but till date it is in dark. Even one year after the incident occurred in a five star hotel here, no convincing conclusion has come out,” the PIL said.
It added that Pushkar died under mysterious circumstances, her body carried more than 10 injury marks and the reason for the death was mentioned as poisoning.
Pushkar was found dead in a luxury hotel here on January 17, 2014. The police filed an FIR on January 1, 2015, relying on the report by AIIMS medical board saying she was poisoned to death.
(With inputs from PTI)