Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi on Thursday said that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) will talk to the journalists who have claimed that Sunanda Pushkar had talked to them the day before her death.
“Some journalists have in past openly talked about how Pushkar had called them the day before her death. So, talking to them will be a relevant step for us. We would surely like to take help of these journalists to reach the root of this case. The SIT will likely be talking to them in a day or two,” said Bassi.
He also confirmed that certain electronic equipments related to the death probe of Sunanda Pushkar are being examined by the experts.
“Any electronic equipment which we seize during our investigation is always examined by the experts. This case is not a unique case, so in this case also we are getting certain equipments examined by the experts,” Bassi added.
The Police Commissioner said his team was investigating the case with ‘an open mind’ and nothing ‘relevant’ would be left out.
“I don’t have the minute to minute update of the case. We are investigating this case with an open mind. So, anything relevant that comes our way is not going to be left out,” he added.
Earlier this week, former minister and Sunanda Pushkar’s husband Shashi Tharoor was interrogated at the Vasant Vihar police station in South Delhi. According to media reports, he was asked over 50 questions by a team of four officers in the first of three likely rounds of interrogation.
Earlier this month, the police had said that based on available evidence, Sunanda Pushkar, 51, was poisoned. A case of murder was registered on January 6.
Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in the five-star Leela Hotel in Delhi on January 17, 2014.
She was married to Tharoor for a little less than four years. It was the third marriage for both. Before her death, Pushkar had publicly accused Tharoor of having an affair with a Pakistani journalist Meher Tarar.
Initially, her death was debated as a possible suicide for months, and it was only this month, that a murder theory began to be considered seriously after doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) maintained that her demise was unnatural.
Tharoor has been demanding that the investigation must be “free of political pressure or a pre-determined outcome.”
(ANI)