Delhi Court allows Shashi Tharoor to travel abroad

Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on Saturday allowed Congress leader and former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor to travel to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), France and Norway between February and May 2020.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor had moved an application in a Delhi court on Tuesday, seeking permission to travel abroad.

Shashi Tharoor is an accused in his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death case and is currently on bail.

The trial court while granting bail to him had imposed a certain condition that the accused shall not leave the country without prior permission of the court.

Pushkar was found dead in a suite of a luxury hotel in the city on the night of January 17, 2014. Tharoor was later charged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) including for abetment to suicide and cruelty.