Former Union minister Shashi Tharoor.

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Wednesday agreed to allow former Union minister Shashi Tharoor , who is to stand trial in the Sunanda Puhskar death case, to go abroad for a few days starting August 10.

He also has to deposit a fixed deposit receipt Rs 2 lakh before he leaves the country, which he will be refunded after his return.

Tharoor, a Congress MP, had applied to Delhi Patiala House court for permission. Last month, the same court granted anticipatory bail to Tharoor days before he was ordered to appear in court to stand trial in the Pushkar case in which he's an accused.

As a condition for anticipatory bail, Tharoor was told can't leave the country without informing the court.

In June, a Delhi court took cognizance of Tharoor's alleged offences of abetment of suicide and committing cruelty towards Pushkar. Tharoor's then wife Pushkar was found dead in Delhi's Leela Hotel four years ago. The court said there's sufficient grounds to proceed against the Congress MP.

In May, four years after Pushkar was found dead in suite number 345 of the Leela Hotel, the Delhi Police filed a chargesheet and named her husband and Congress MP Tharoor as an accused in the case. According to the chargesheet, Pushkar killed herself by consuming an overdose of antidepressant pills, alprazolam (Alprax), and was driven to taking the extreme step by her husband

Though it was a murder probe with the FIR registered under IPC Section 302 (murder), police have charged Tharoor under Sections 306 (abetment) and 498A (cruelty by husband) of the Indian Penal Code .

The chargesheet was filed before Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmender Singh at the Patiala House court. Police have concluded that it was a case of suicide and not murder. The FIR in the case was filed under section 302 IPC.

