No radioactive substance found in Sunanda Pushkar body — Federal Bureau of Investigation Report

A special investigative team of Delhi Police is probing the death of Sunanda who is the wife of former Union minister and senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor.

The Delhi police received a report from the FBI’s forensic lab in connection with the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar.

Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi told the Hindu that “some facts related to the case” would be disclosed soon. Tharoor was also questioned many times by the investigators but the sleuths are still clueless on how she died. However, the police will require a court’s permission to conduct a polygraph test.

Ms Pushkar, 51, was found dead at the luxurious Leela Hotel in Delhi in January 2014.

For a year, her death was considered a case of suicide, but earlier this year the Delhi Police, based on a medical report, claimed that Pushkar was poisoned and registered a murder case against unknown persons. No one has been named as a suspect in the case so far.

It is learnt that the reports have hinted that the radioactive substance present in the body had not reached toxic levels, which could have resulted in death.

Tissue samples of Sunanda were sent to a Federal Bureau of Investigation lab in Washington this February after AIIMS panel of doctors concluded that the poison could not be found in Indian labs.