Union Minister Shashi Tharoor and his wife Sunanda Pushkar reportedly had a bitter fight a day before she was found dead in a luxurious hotel in New Delhi.
The news reports state that 52-year-old Sunanda had checked herself into the hotel alone on the night of January 15 and Tharoor joined her a day later.
Sources have revealed that the couple was fighting on the flight and Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tiwari had tried to pacify them.
Pushkar’s death under mysterious circumstances took place a day after tweets suggesting Tharoor’s extra-marital with a Pakistani journalist went on Twitter. Soon after, Tharoor and Pushkar declared that they were “happily married”.
Police is likely to question Tharoor over the death of the Pushkar today.