DHAKA: The wife of Indian minister Shashi Tharoor, found dead in a Delhi hotel room on Friday, died a ‘sudden and unnatural death’, an autopsy has found.

Doctors said there were ‘injury marks’ on Sunanda Pushkar’s body, but did not say if they were linked to her death, reports the BBC.

Tharoor, who was earlier admitted to hospital with chest pains, took his wife’s body away for cremation.

The couple became embroiled in a row on Wednesday after Twitter messages suggested he was having an affair.

Dr Sudhir Kumar Gupta, one of the three medical staff who carried out the post-mortem examination, said full results would be released in the next two days.

‘There were certain injury marks on the body of Sunanda Pushkar, but the nature of these cannot be revealed,’ he said.

Dr Gupta added that initial results showed no sign of poison in her body, but more tests would be carried out.

Tharoor’s aide, Abhinav Kumar, had earlier told reporters that Pushkar had appeared to be asleep.

‘There were no signs of any foul play or any struggle. She had no sign of poisoning or anything,’ he said.

BDST: 1747 HRS, JAN 18, 2014
Edited by Robab Rosan, Current Affairs Editor