Court grants regular bail to Shashi Tharoor

New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor was on Saturday granted regular bail by a Delhi court in a case relating to his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death almost four years ago in a luxury hotel here. The Thiruvananthapuram MP, who was summoned as an accused in the case, appeared before the court and informed it that he had already been granted anticipatory bail by a sessions court on July 5.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal then directed him to furnish a bail bond of Rs 1 lakh and one surety of like amount as directed by the sessions court and converted the interim relief to regular bail.

Tharoor had moved the court for anticipatory bail apprehending arrest. Pushkar was found dead in a suite of a luxury hotel in the city on the night of January 17, 2014. The couple was staying in the hotel, as the official bungalow of Shashi Tharoor was being renovated at that time. The court handed over a copy of the charge sheet and the documents filed along with it to Tharoor and posted the matter for scrutiny on July 26.