Forensic results from the US expected to come in soon.
By Dileep Thekkethil
BENGALURU: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor who was thrice questioned by the Delhi police in connection with the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar may have to undergo a lie detection test soon.
According to NDTV, the Delhi police is considering moving to the court asking permission for a polygraph test or lie detection test to be conducted on Tharoor, which also needs a consent from the MP.
Tharoor’s office said on Tuesday that it has not yet received any official request from the Delhi police regarding the Polygraph test, however, “he (Tharoor) will cooperate with the probe” – a stand that Tharoor has maintained since he was accused by the opposition of murdering Sunanda Pushkar, who was found dead in mysterious circumstances at a posh Delhi-hotel in January 2014.
Delhi Police has already conducted polygraph tests of six witnesses in the Sunanda Pushkar murder case. This includes the domestic help of Shashi Tharoor, Narain Singh; his driver Bajraangi and his family friend Dewan.
Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi had hinted at the possibility of adopting the scientific method of questioning in the case.
“Our investigation is continuing and whatever is required to be done will be done. So far we have carried out polygraph tests on six persons. If there is any requirement we will conduct further tests,” he said earlier this month.
Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in a luxurious Delhi hotel on January 2014, this a few days after her rift with Tharoor became public as the former alleged through twitter that Tharoor was having an extramarital relationship with Mehr Tarar, a Pakistani journalist.
The post-mortem report of Pushkar, which found her death as “unnatural”, also found that poison was administered on her that resulted in the death. The Delhi police have sent her viscera samples to the FBI lab in Washington this February and are waiting for the report, this after doctors at AIIMS failed to detect the kind of poison used.
During the polygraph test of the other three witnesses, the Delhi police had asked them 100 questions related to some of the crucial facts, including injuries found on Sunanda’s body that appear to have been inflicted during a scuffle. They were also asked about Tharoor’s alleged relationship with Mehr Tarar.