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The discharge order, which was issued a day after Shashi Tharoor was cleared of all the charges, said there is no case made out against the accused under Section 306 of Indian Penal Code (IPC), which relates to abetment to suicide.
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Shashi Tharoor thanked the judge, and said it was an absolute torture for last seven-and-a-half-years and that it was a great relief.
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A new book chronicles Pushkar’s tumultuous life and the mystery surrounding her death.This excerpt gives a glimpse into the disintegration of her marriage to Congress politician Shashi Tharoor
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Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal sent the court to the case to Additional Sessions Judge Arun Bhardwaj since the offence under Section 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code was triable by a sessions judge.
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The documents were filed by police along with the charge sheet. The court also granted Tharoor exemption from personal appearance for the day after an application was moved by his counsel in this regard.
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During the hearing, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy requested Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal that he be allowed to assist the police in the case.
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Justice R K Gauba asked the Delhi Police standing counsel (criminal) Rahul Mehra to appear in the matter and listed the plea on September 25.
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Here’s a timeline of how the Sunanda Pushkar death case has unfolded over the last four and a half years.
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In a statement, he said he maintains steadfast conviction that ultimately the truth will prevail through the judicial system.
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Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmendra Singh transferred the case to Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal, who will take up the matter on May 28.
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Sunanda Pushkar was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a suite of a five-star hotel in Delhi on the night of January 17, 2014.
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The bench also said that from what was placed before the court, it was unable to be persuaded that the probe, being carried out by the SIT, is botched up or under the influence of any party.
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Hours after Sunanda Pushkar was found dead, the suite was sealed that night itself for investigation. An FIR was registered by Delhi police on January 1, 2015 against unknown persons under IPC section 302 (murder).
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A bench of Justices G S Sistani and Chander Shekhar said so after Additional Solicitor General Sanjay Jain submitted that the court can look into the status of the investigation they have carried out so far.
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A bench of Justices G S Sistani and P S Teji, who did not issue notice in the matter, has said that it needs to hear the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the CBI and the Delhi Police on the plea.
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"Exasperating farrago of distortions, misrepresentations and outright lies being broadcast by an unprincipled showman masquerading as a journalist," Tharoor said in a Facebook post.
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Sunanda Pushkar died of "poisoning" with the AIIMS medical board, which gave its opinion on the FBI report on her viscera samples, unanimously concluding that there was presence of anxiety drug Alprax in her stomach.
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In an electronic communication, the FBI rejected all speculations that she died due to Polonium or any other radioactive substance.
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Meanwhile, Delhi Police sources termed her death an "open-and-shut case" while adding Tharoor is likely to be questioned over why he forced the doctors to change opinion in the case.
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A team of AIIMS doctors has submitted a fresh report to police on the mysterious death of Sunanda, wife of former Union minister Shashi Tharoor, maintaining that she died of poisoning.
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Sources say a drug overdose remains the most probable cause of Sunanda's death. Officials will also be studying phone details of Sunanda and Shashi Tharoor on Monday, especially in the past few hours before her death.
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The initial autopsy report, conducted by AIIMS, said it to be ‘unnatural sudden death‘. Though the report said there were no traces of posion in Sunanda's blood, injury marks were discovered on her body. The full autopsy details are expected in two days, said AIIMS.
