New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor yesterday reached the national capital and is likely to be questioned by Delhi Police in connection with his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s murder.
Tharoor arrived at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport from Kerala around 2pm and went to his house in central Delhi’s Lodhi Estate.
Tharoor did not reply to questions from journalists, and merely said: “I have already spoken with the media (in Kerala).”
He drove away in a car with his security staff. After reaching home, he consulted his lawyers and discussed the case.
Policemen have been deployed outside his residence.
Tharoor was undergoing ayurvedic rejuvenation in Thrissur district of Kerala. Soon after his discharge, he raised questions on the Delhi Police investigation and demanded a professional probe.
He also said he wrote to Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi, assuring him full cooperation with the investigating team.
Pushkar, 52, was found dead in mysterious circumstances in a luxury hotel here Jan 17, 2014.
On Saturday, Delhi Police said they will question Tharoor after the people who were in the hotel and in touch with Pushkar before she was found murdered.
A police official said Pushkar’s viscera samples would soon be sent abroad for ascertaining the poisonous substance administered to her.
12 Bodo militants arrested in Assam
Guwahati: Twelve Bodo militants were yesterday arrested from three places in Assam along the international border with Bhutan, a day after an insurgent involved in the massacre of adivasis was shot dead, police said.
The cadres of the anti-talk faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) were arrested in Chirang district in operations jointly carried out by Assam Police, the Central Reserve Police Force and the Sashastra Seema Bal. “The 12 cadres include a member of the outfit’s central committee, a deputy commander and a platoon commander,” said Inspector General of Police L R Bishnoi.
They were being interrogated to ascertain their links with the recent violence in three districts, he said. Four AK-56 rifles, five pistols, one .303 rifle, one .315 rifle, 12 magazines, four grenades and 785 rounds of ammunition were seized from them.
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