The Delhi Police on Monday named Congress leader Shashi Tharoor as a suspect in his wife Sunanda Pushkar's suicide in a 3,000-page chargesheet, more than four years after she was found dead in a hotel in the capital.

The document lists charges under the Indian Penal Code's Sections 306 (abetment to suicide) and 498(A) (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty).

The police said Pushkar took her own life.

The Patiala House Court will hear the matter on May 24.

Tharoor, a former junior minister in the UPA's term, was the only suspect named. He is the incumbent MP from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala's capital.

"I have taken note of the filing of this preposterous charge sheet and intend to contest it vigorously," Tharoor said in a tweet. "No one who knew Sunanda believes she would ever have committed suicide, let alone abetment on my part. If this is conclusion arrived at after 4+ yrs of investigation, it does not speak well of the methods or motivations of the Delhi Police."

He added that on October 17, "the Law Officer made a statement in the Delhi High Court that they have not found anything against anyone, and now in 6 months they say that I have abetted a suicide. Unbelievable!"

BJP MP Subramanian Swamy said that there were "allegations on Shashi Tharoor that he forced his wife to commit suicide."

Under Section 301 CrPC and also via JK International judgment of SC I am entitled to assist the Prosecutor in the Sunanda unnatural death case. So I will appear on May 24 th May 14, 2018





"All witnesses and documents were destroyed by the UPA government and corrupt police. On the basis of current evidence this is what could be done. More information will come during the trial," Swamy added.

Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in a suite in The Leela Hotel in Chanakyapuri on January 17, 2014.

The AIIMS hospital confirmed that hers was an unnatural death.

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