Sunanda Pushkar murder case: Amar Singh keeps mum after SIT interrogation

Former Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament (MP) Amar Singh, who was questioned on Wednesday by a special investigative team of the Delhi Police in connection with murder case of Sunanda Pushkar, chose to keep mum over the nature of the enquiries.

"I was questioned for two hours. The questions asked by the SIT and what I replied to them are not supposed to be disclosed. I respect [Congress president] Sonia Gandhi and Shashi Tharoor a lot. Whatever I knew about Sunanda, I told the police about it," Singh told the media.

"There is no point in hiding the truth, more so when the matter of gruesome murder has come to light. That does not mean that I do not wish well for Shashi Tharoor or I am accusing Shashi Tharoor of any conspiracy. After all, he was my friend's husband. So, the question of accusing anybody does not arise," he added.

Singh further refused to reveal anything about the two-hour long questioning, saying it may affect the investigation.

"Tt is not prudent on my part to say anything about [the questioning] because it may affect the process of investigation. Whatever it is now a matter of serious content which is shared by me and SIT and any detail particular of that process of investigation should not and cannot be revealed," he said.

Earlier in the day, Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi told the media that the SIT will question former Singh in connection with the death probe, after the latter claimed to have some information about the case.

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.

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