Sunanda Pushkar death: Journalist Nalini Singh questioned

Singh was called by the probe team led by Deputy Commissioner of Police Prem Nath at Sarojini Nagar police station, where she was questioned for over an hour. Singh said, "I met them (police) for about 80 minutes. This was my first meeting with the police."Police told IANS that Singh was questioned about the Indian Premier League (IPL) angle regarding which Pushkar had wanted to talk to her.

On Thursday, the team had questioned another television anchor, Rahul Kanwal, to whom Pushkar had wanted to give an interview on certain undisclosed issue. Both the journalists were questioned soon after Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi told media that they would take the help of those journalists who had talked to Pushkar before her death to corroborate the sequence of events.

Pushkar was found dead in a luxury hotel room here January 17, 2014. Police said she was poisoned. A murder case was registered by the police against unknown people January 1 this year.

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Attempt to implicate me in Sunanda death case: Shashi Tharoor

In a letter to Delhi Police Commissioner B S  Bassi dated November 12 and accessed by the media on Wednesday, Tharoor urged the Police Chief to take action against the concerned officer.

Tharoor said that four Delhi Police officers interrogated his domestic help Narayan Singh last month - for 16 hours November 7 and for 14 hours November 8.

On both days, Tharoor alleged that Narayan Singh was "repeatedly physically assaulted by one of your officers."Worse, that officer used the traumatic physical assault to try and intimidate Narayan into 'confessing' that he and I murdered my wife," the former central minister said.

Tharoor recalled that he expressed his concerns to Bassi over telephone Nov 8 night."As you graciously agreed, such conduct is completely unacceptable and illegal," Tharoor said in his letter. "It also amounts to the use of physical coercion in the attempt to frame an innocent man.

"I would request you to take immediate and appropriate action against such unlawful misconduct of the officer concerned."My staff and I have always made ourselves available for any kind of inquiry and investigation but the recent behaviour of the officers towards my staff is a matter of serious concern to any law abiding citizen.

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