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Death of Tharoor's Wife

Injury marks found on her body

Star report
Doctors who conducted the post-mortem of Indian minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar yesterday said it was a case of unnatural death as her body carried some injury marks.
"On post-mortem examination, we can say that it is a case of unnatural sudden death. There were certain injury marks on the body, but we can't divulge details at this point," said Sudhir Kumar Gupta, a doctor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. "We will conclude our report and opinion in a couple of days," he said.
"Physical injuries on Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor's body may or may not be related to her death. Samples of toxicology analysis rule out poisoning."
Sources told IANS: "It could be a case of drug overdose but things would be clear only after the detailed autopsy report" and added that it could be an overdose of sleeping pills.
Sunanda, 52, was found dead in a five-star hotel room in New Delhi on Friday, reports our New Delhi correspondent.
Sunanda, it is learnt, had checked into a room at the Leela Palace hotel on Wednesday after she returned with Tharoor from Kerala as the official residence of her husband was being renovated and Sunanda was allergic to dust, sources said. The couple was due to check out Saturday.
Sunanda is believed to have moved into a suite with TharoorThursday. She was last seen at around 3:30pm Friday when she ordered lunch.
Tharoor, junior minister for human resources development, discovered the body' after he returned from a meeting of his Congress party, his private secretary' Abhinav Kumar said.
"She seemed to be sleeping in a normal way but later it was found she was dead," Kumar told reporters.
Hours after he found his wife's body, the minister complained of chest pain, and was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
'MURDER BYTWHTER'
The death came as a tragic twist in a tale of apparent marital strife that has played out in full view of the Indian media.
On Wednesday evening, a series of emotional tweets from the Twitter handle of Shashi Tharoor created a flutter on the micro blogging site, reports Hindustan Times.
They were all directed at Pakistani columnist Mehr Tarar, who had interviewed Tharoor and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah last year.
As the tweets spread out through social media, Tharoor himself was flying back to Delhi from his constituency in Thiruvananthapuram. When the media contacted Sunanda Pushkar, it emerged that she had used his han- dle.
She had chanced upon a series of messages allegedly sent by Mehr Tarar to Th a root.
By the time Tharoor landed in Delhi and discovered the series of damaging tweets, Pushkar had hit out at Tharoor in sharply-worded statements to the press.
Tharoor immediately issued a tweet in clarification, assuming that his account had been hacked. But Pushkar started using her own twitter handle to vent out further damaging details.
A close attention to Pushkar's twitter feed of the past few days lends a peek into her troubled state of mind and in hindsight, pre-empts the impending denouement.
An earlier incident in Dubai had been haunting the couple. The local English daily, KhaleejTimes, had been mentioned by Tharoor in a clarification issued by him on his Facebook page.
It seems the publication had reported adversely about Pushkar and him while they were attending a marriage there.
Soon after the controversy, Sunanda began to put out quotes indicating hurt and betrayal. "A disloyal and dishonest friend is the worst thing that can happenin (sic) in lie. Lovers have a right to betray you, friends don't."
She would tweet again that she "treated everyone as a friend, but if they betray me, that it. They are out of my life in one way or the other".
This would continue for an hour until she pointed out in a response to a tweet that "This is a woman sadly who lied and cheated to get what she wanted. Feel sorry' for the guy she manipulated. Men are so simple."
By Thursday, she and Tarar were locked in a bitter exchange of tweets.
Speaking to The Indian Express, Sunanda even said that she would "seek divorce".
But as people began to heckle her, she stepped back from twitter, emerging hours later, only to tweet a clarification that all the tweets were "unauthorised" and all was fine with their marriage.
Seeking to bury' the controversy, Tharoor issued a joint statement with Sunanda in which he blamed "unauthorised" tweets and "distorted" media reports for the "unseemly controversy".
"We are distressed by the unseemly controversy that has arisen about some unauthorised tweets from our Twitter accounts," read the joint statement published by NDTV on Thursday.
"Various distorted accounts of comments allegedly made by Sunanda have appeared in the press. It appears that some personal and private comments responding to these unauthorised tweets - comments that were not intended for publication - have been misrepresented and led to some erroneous conclusions.
"We wish to stress that we are happily married and intend to remain that way. Sunanda has been ill and hospitalised this week and is seeking to rest. We would be grateful if the media respects our privacy."
The world of Twitter drew a lot of flak on Twitter itself immediately after the news of Sunanda’s death broke, The Economic Times reported.
Even as people expressed shock and grief over the incident, there were many who called it "murder by Twitter" "First murder by Twitterlndia, claps, fellow twitter matured guns!" tweeted badminton player PVSindhu.
Suketu Mehta, a professor at the NY University was also of the same view. He tweeted, "terrible news about Sunanda Tharoor. His is murder by twitter."
This was soon followed by a disclaimer that his Twitter account had been hacked. By then this had turned into a full-scale war on the social media site. Sunanda seemed upset about how this incident was discussed in social media.
WHO IS MEHRTARAR?
A graduate ofWest Virginia University, the 45-year-old Lahore-based journalist is mother of a 13-year-old boy.
She is reported to be separated from her husband, a rich businessman based out of Bahrain. She used to work with a Pakistani daily, but quit recently.
It's reported that she now works with the group's business channel. Another Lahore-based journo, who has worked with Mehr, describes her as "competitive".
Mehr was quite upset with the whole Twitter face-off, but what hurt her most was Pushkar calling her an "LSI agent".
On Thursday she told Hindustan Times, "Please tell Sunanda she can call me anything but not an LSI agent. My son is very upset."