DHAKA: Sunanda Pushkar, wife of India’s union minister Shashi Tharoor, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances at a five star hotel in New Delhi Friday night, was cremated on Saturday.

The last rites of Pushkar, 52, were performed at the Lodhi Road crematorium, reports The Times of India.

Meanwhile, doctors at AIIMS, who conducted autopsy on the body of Sunanda Pushkar, said it was a case of ‘sudden, unnatural death’ but ruled out poisoning even as police investigated various angles into death of union minister Shashi Tharoor’s wife.

Injury marks were also found on the body of 52-year-old Pushkar, who was found dead at the luxury Leela Palace hotel in South Delhi.

The head of the three-member panel of doctors that conducted the autopsy on Pushkar, said, ‘We have conducted the postmortem examination ... It is a case of sudden, unnatural death’ but ruled out poisoning.

However, he said the team has preserved certain ‘biological samples for toxicological analysis as well as visco-pathological examination’.

‘We have completed the whole procedure. Samples for toxicological analysis means ruling out any poison. Some pathology of the heart has been preserved by us,’ he said.

BDST: 2121 HRS, JAN 18, 2014
Edited by Robab Rosan, Current Affairs Editor