Sunanda Pushkar: 12 pictures of her mysterious death
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Sunanda Pushkar's family has criticized the media for "slanderous" reporting of her death. Her brother Rajesh Pushkar said that the family was intensely disturbed with the media's insensible journalism.
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Union minister Shashi Tharoor and Sunanda Pushkar's son Shiv Menon mourn at the AIIMS in New Delhi. A three-member team of senior doctors at AIIMS conducted postmortem on the body of Sunanda Pushkar even as police continued to probe various angles including suicide in the case.
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Sunanda's son Shiv Menon said that his mother was a resilient woman and Tharoor couldn't have maltreated her.
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Sunanda Pushkar was reportedly deeply distressed by Shashi Tharoor's friendship with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar and had demanded that he snap all communication with her.
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Sunanda's brother said that the couple was happy and full of love. If there were any differences at all, it was only momentary in nature. So, there is no implication of these issues affecting their relationship.
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Rajesh Pushkar, brother of Sunanda Pushkar, defended Shashi Tharoor by saying that the idea of the Union Minister harming his own wife was absolutely preposterous.
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Fifty-two-year-old Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in a 5-star hotel in South Delhi on Jan 17, a day after her Twitter fight with Pakistani reporter Mehr Tarar over an apparent affair with Shashi Tharoor.
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Rajesh Pushkar, a serving Colonel in Indian Army, was quite close to his sister and brother-in-law. It is quite evident that the latest media uproar about his sister's death has made him very uncomfortable.
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Shashi Tharoor and his relatives and friends carry the body of his wife Sunanda Pushkar before her cremation in New Delhi. He brother Rajesh Pushkar said, "I have known my sister to be an angel at heart but too often impulsively say things she did not mean and withdraw them later."
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Sunanda Pushkar's husband Shashi Tharoor and son Shiv Menon during her cremation at Lodhi Road crematorium in New Delhi. The probe into the high-profile case was reassigned to the Crime Branch seeing its "delicate nature" and "intricacies" involved.
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Sunanda's body is taken away from AIIMS by her husband Shashi Tharoor and her son Shiv Menon. She was found lifeless in a hotel room under mysterious circumstance on Jan 17. Her son and brother demanded a prompt inquiry into the case "to put an end to the reports that are hurting" the family.
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Sunanda Pushkar's last rites at Lodhi Crematorium. The autopsy of Sunanda Pushkar indicates that she died of drug overdose, most likely a lethal combination of sedatives, some other strong medicines and perhaps alcohol.