Offers to cooperate Shashi Tharoor writes to Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde offering full cooperation in the probe Tharoor, Sunanda’s brother Rajesh and friend Nalini Singh depose before the SDM

New Delhi, January 19
Union Minister Shashi Tharoor today recorded his statement before Sub-Divisional Magistrate Alok Sharma probing Sunanda Pushkar’s death on Friday.

Pushkar’s brother Rajesh and journalist Nalini Singh also deposed before the magistrate. In the morning, Tharoor wrote to Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde offering full cooperation in the probe and urged him to expedite the probe.

Tharoor said he was “horrified” to see the “reckless speculation rampant” in the media. He said the relevant authorities should be asked to expedite the investigation and come to a rapid conclusion so that the truth emerges at the earliest. The police and the SDM are said to be focusing on the possibility of foul play behind Sunanda’s death and see how far the reported liaison between Tharoor and Pakistan journalist Mehr Tarar was responsible for the events leading to her death.

Tharoor, in his 50-minute statement before the SDM, is understood to have narrated the events prior to Sunanda’s death.

Her friend Nalini Singh claimed she was one of the last persons Sunanda had talked to. “I have shared with the SDM exactly what Sunanda said to me. She was planning something as she had something in her mind,” Singh told the PTI.