Sunanda Pushkar, the wife of federal minister Shashi Tharoor, was found dead in a five-star-hotel in New Delhi late Friday after being involved in a spat on Twitter with someone she accused of stalking her husband.
Ms. Pushkar’s body was discovered by Mr. Tharoor, his personal secretary, and employees of The Leela Palace, where the couple had checked in, after she failed to open the door, Deepak Mishra, who heads the crime division of the Delhi Police, said. Ms. Pushkar was 52.
Mr. Tharoor found his wife’s body sprawled across the bed, Mr. Mishra said. Abhinav Kumar, Mr. Tharoor’s personal secretary, confirmed this sequence of events.
Mr. Tharoor–a minister for human resource development, author and former senior United Nations official– had returned to the hotel around 7.30 p.m. after the day-long national meet of India’s ruling-Congress party, of which he is a senior member. The 57-year-old has previously served as the under-secretary-general of the United Nations and a junior foreign minister.
Police said they were still looking into the cause of death.
“Only after a postmortem report will we be in a position to pin-point what happened,” Mr. Mishra of the police said.
via Sunanda Pushkar, Wife of Indian Minister Tharoor, Found Dead – India Real Time – WSJ.
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