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The wife of an Indian minister was found dead Friday at a luxury hotel in New Delhi after a controversy over her husband’s alleged affair with a Pakistani journalist.

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Spokesman Rajan Bhagat said police were investigating the cause of Sunanda Pushkar’s death. The Press Trust of India news agency reported the cause was believed to be suicide. Police declined comment.

The BBC reported that there were “injury marks” on her body, but said reports were unclear how they were related to her death.

“We can say that it is a case of unnatural sudden death. There were certain injury marks on the body, but we can’t divulge details at this point,” Sudhir Kumar Gupta a forensic scientist was quoted saying in The Press Trust of India.

The marriage of the 52-year-old Pushkar and her husband, junior Human Resources Development Minister Shashi Tharoor, made headlines Thursday when she tweeted that her husband was having an affair with a Pakistani journalist. The tweets also accused the journalist of being a spy.

Pushkar posted a series of private messages between her husband – who has more than two million Twitter followers – and Mehr Tarar on his timeline.

One, which appeared to have to been a direct message to the minister from Tarar’s account, @mehrtarar, declared: “I love you, Shashi Tharoor. And I go while in love with you, irrevocably, irreversibly, hamesha [always]. Bleeding, but always your Mehr.”