PIL seeks probe into Sunanda's death

A petition was filed in the Supreme Court on Friday seeking court-monitored probe by an independent agency, preferably by the CBI or the NIA, into the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress MP and former Union minister Shashi Tharoor.

The PIL, filed by advocate Raja Ramana, listed the turn of events including the latest statement by AIIMS doctor Sudhir Gupta that he was under pressure from outside to change the report. Gupta headed the team that conducted the post-mortem examination on her body Sunanda (52) was found dead in a five-star hotel in South Delhi on the night of January 17, a day after her Twitter spat with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar over an alleged affair with Tharoor. The advocate sought a CBI or NIA probe into the matter in view of the international angle that Tarar was alleged to be an ISI agent.

The autopsy report prepared had mentioned more than a dozen injury marks on both her hands and an abrasion on her cheek which suggests a “use of blunt force”, besides a “deep teeth bite” on the edge of her left palm.