Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor, wife of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, was found dead at a five star hotel room in New Delhi around 9 pm today.
Pushkar was staying at Hotel Leela in the national capital and initial reports suggest she committed suicide.
Sketchy details emerging from Delhi Police say that her body was lying on the bed of Room No.- 345 and there was no visible external injury to it.
Sunanda Pushkar and Shashi Tharoor. AFP
A scandal erupted on Wednesday after controversial tweets were posted on the verified account of the Tharoor, the minister of state for human resource development, which got twitterati all abuzz due to the very personal nature of the posts.
The tweets on Tharoor's timeline were purportedly those he received from Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar. Some of them, which have been since deleted but are still on twitter, read: "@mehrtarar I love you, Shashi Tharoor. And I go while in love with you, irrevocably, irreversibly, hamesha. Bleeding, but always your Mehr."
However, the minister and his wife issued a joint statement saying they are distressed by an "unseemly controversy" over some "unauthorised tweets" posted from their Twitter accounts and that both are "happily married and intend to remain that way".
In a statement, they said that "distorted accounts" of comments "allegedly made by Sunanda" have appeared in the press. "It appears that some personal and private comments responding to these unauthorised tweets—comments that were not intended for publication—have been misrepresented and led to some erroneous conclusions."
With inputs from IANS
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