New Delhi, Jan 20- Two days after the death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of union minister Shashi Tharoor, sources in the police said they have found three empty strips of Alprax (0.5mg) from her hotel room. The discovery indicates that 52-year-old Sunanda may have committed suicide by consuming sleeping pills in large numbers.
Mail Today was the first to report that Sunanda may have died due to an overdose of sleeping pills. Alprax is a sedative that induces sleep and is used to treat moderate to severe anxiety disorders and panic attacks.
Meanwhile, “horrified” with the “reckless speculation” rampant in the media about his wife’s death, Tharoor has written a letter to Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde requesting for a probe into the death and has offered his full cooperation.
In the letter, Tharoor requested that the relevant authorities be asked to expedite the investigation and come to a rapid conclusion so that “the truth emerges at the earliest” regarding the death of 52-year-old Pushkar at a hotel in the Capital on Friday evening.
“In the midst of my mourning, I have finally had a chance to catch up with the media reports and am horrified to read the reckless speculation rampant there. I am appealing to you to issue instructions to the relevant authorities to expedite their investigation and come to a rapid conclusion so that the truth emerges at the earliest,” the minister’s letter stated.
The letter goes on to say: “I pledge full and unstinting cooperation. Nothing short of the truth will end the indignity to which my wife and I are being subject at a time when all I seek is to be allowed to grieve in private with her and my near and dear ones.” AIIMS doctors, who conducted her post-mortem examination, have said Pushkar had died a sudden, unnatural death. A member of the autopsy team has said her body bore some physical injuries but it was not clear if they were related to her death.
-Indiatoday
