Sunanda Pushkar death probe: SIT to question Amar Singh today

Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi on Wednesday said that a Special Investigation Team of the Delhi Police will question former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh in connection with Sunanda Pushkar death probe, after the latter claimed to have some information about the case.

"The SIT has told me that Amar Singh will be questioned over the case of Sunanda Pushkar after Amar Singh said that he has some information about the case. We will now formally talk to him. He has been called today and he must have arrived till now. SIT would be taking information from him," said Bassi.

Earlier this month, former union minister and Sunanda Pushkar's husband Shashi Tharoor was interrogated by the SIT at the Vasant Vihar police station in South Delhi. He was asked over 50 questions by a team of four officers in the first of three likely rounds of interrogation.

The police had said that based on available evidence, Sunanda Pushkar, 51, was poisoned. A case of murder was registered on January 6.

Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in the five-star Leela Hotel in Delhi on January 17, 2014.

She was married to Tharoor for a little less than four years. It was the third marriage for both. Before her death, Pushkar had publicly accused Tharoor of having an affair with a Pakistani journalist Meher Tarar.

Initially, her death was debated as a possible suicide for months, and it was only this month, that a murder theory began to be considered seriously after doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) maintained that her demise was unnatural.

Tharoor has demanded that the investigation must be "free of political pressure or a pre-determined outcome.