Sunanda Pushkar death case: Delhi Police question RLD leader Amar Singh

Sources said that Singh was asked about what Sunanda had told him regarding the IPL controversy and about allegedly taking the blame for Shashi Tharoor.

The former SP leader, who has been maintaining that he was a close friend of the Tharoors, was also asked about the relations between the couple and whether Sunanda had discussed anything about Tharoor's alleged affair with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar.

Singh said that he was questioned for two hours by the Special Investigation Team but refused to divulge any details.

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

"Whatever I knew about Sunanda, I have told the police and now I will not say anything since the matter has been taken into cognizance by SIT," he added.

Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi said that Singh was questioned by the SIT after he had recently told media that he has certain information regarding the case. 

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Sunanda case: Shashi Tharoor likely to be questioned soon, says BS Bassi

"I think in the next couple of days, all the key persons who have to be questioned by us will be quizzed. We would like to complete it soon. I think the SIT will soon do it," he told reporters here on Friday outside Police Headquarters when asked when would Tharoor be questioned in the case.

He also denied reports that the viscera samples which are almost one-year-old must have been spoilt by now and would not reveal the kind of poison that caused Sunanda's death even if it is sent abroad.

"The samples are kept with preservatives, they have a shelf life. Unless there are some issues with the way they have been kept or the way they were preserved during sampling they will not get spoilt," he said.

Bassi had yesterday said that a definitive decision over where the viscera will be sent will be taken in the next couple of days. Police may send the exhibits to labs in US or UK.

The police chief refused to reveal what the SIT has come across so far during questioning of several individuals so far.

"Whenever there is a questioning we always get to know certain things. All these things will be taken into cognizance and a conclusion will be drawn," he said.

51-year-old Sunanda was found dead in her suite at a five-star hotel in south Delhi on the night of January 17, 2014, a day after she was involved in a spat with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar on micro-blogging website twitter.com over the latter's alleged affair with Tharoor.

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ADR urges SIT to check black money pumped into elections

In a letter to Justice (retd.) MB Shah, Chairman of the SIT on black money, Jagdeep Chhokar, founder-trustee of the ADR, said that SIT's work cannot be completed unless attention is paid to the possible use of unaccounted money in the electoral and political process.

Following the letter, the ADR submitted a memorandum to the SIT calling for a ceiling on election expenditure of political parties, bringing them under the Right to Information Act and disclosure of sources of income of candidates contesting elections.

"The availability of disproportionately large resources of unaccounted money with the political parties during elections might lend itself to misuse by the parties which belies the ideal of free and fair elections in a democratic setup like India. Thus a ceiling should be imposed on election expenditure of political parties," it said.

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Black money case: SIT invites information from public

The panel comprising of retired judges and regulators will soon release an email id where anyone can give information, sources say.

Anybody having credible information on black money can approach the SIT. The team will investigate that information, but it needs to be an authentic one. And no one will be spared.

However the panel will meet on Thursday to work out details of its inquiry, a day after the government submitted a list of 627 foreign account holders to the Supreme Court.

The court has set a deadline of March next year to complete the investigations into whether these account holders have violated tax laws. The court said the list will be given to the top officials of the SIT.

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