FBI report rules out radioactive angle in Sunanda Pushkar's death

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  PTI

  Sunanda Pushkar died under mysterious circumstances in a Delhi hotel in January last year.

  Viscera samples were sent to US after AIIMS doctors had said that Indian labs lacked facility to identify the poison which caused her death.

  Sources on Tuesday claimed that FBI lab reports of Sunanda Pushkar's viscera sample have ruled out death by polonium or any other radioactive substance.
  It is learnt that the reports have hinted that the radioactive substance present in the body had not reached toxic levels, which could have resulted in death. The reports have been sent to Indian authorities nearly nine months after the samples were first sent to the US-based lab,
  The reports were received in a sealed envelope. When asked about them, Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi said that "some facts related to the case" would be disclosed soon.
  Sources also added that the reports have not just ended speculations about the polonium poisoning but have also given the police the name of the poison that caused Sunanda's death.
  The name of the poison would now lead the Special Investigating Team, which is probing the alleged murder, to how it was procured and administered into Sunanda's body.
  Sunanda was mysteriously found dead at her suite in Hotel Leela Palace in January 2014. She, along with her husband and former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, had checked into the hotel a couple of days before her death. In the days leading up to the death, the couple had arguments and fights over certain unresolved issues.
  The post mortem report hinted at the presence of isotopes in the body but the nature could not be detected at Indian labs forcing the authorities to send the samples abroad nine months ago.
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  The Hindu

  Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, was found dead in her suite at a five star hotel in south Delhi on the night of January 17 last year. File photo: K.K. Mustafah