Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Shashi Tharoor, found dead in Delhi hotel

Union minister Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in a Delhi hotel late on Friday, a day after her Twitter spat with a Pakistani journalist over an alleged affair with the minister.

There was a PCR call at 7.30pm after which her body was found in a room at Leela Kempinski on Africa Avenue, the police said. They said she had checked into the hotel on Thursday. There were no visible injury marks and nothing to suggest poisoning either, said Deepak Mishra, special commissioner (law and order).

Tharoor had on Thursday said they were happily married and intended to stay together in a joint statement. In an interview with NDTV, Pushkar had also refuted media reports that she was contemplating divorcing the 57-year-old minister.