Mystery shrouds over Sunanda’s death, still

Even after more than a year, the probe into the murder of Sunanda Pushkar has reached nowhere. Recently, the Special Investigation Team submitted its analytical report on the retrieved messages from Pushkar’s electronic devices, but to no avail.

In late March, the Delhi Police had retrieved the deleted texts from Pushkar’s electronic devices, including her mobile phone and laptop to get some clues about hidden facts of her personal life. 

According to sources, they did not find anything conclusive or concrete that could help them reach the murderer.

“After the probe became murkier and forensic evidences pointed towards Pushkar’s death as murder, a letter was written to the concerned authorities in Mumbai to coordinate with American Agencies to retrieve deleted texts from her electronic devices. We have received the files containing her retrieved messages,” the source added. The copy of retrieved messages from all her electronic devices was sent to a Forensic Science Laboratory in Gujarat and also to the SIT, who is already probing the case. Within few weeks, the Delhi Police received a report from the Gujarat lab; the SIT has also submitted its report. However, none of the reports helped cops to move the probe further. 

Now, the Delhi Police are depending on the FBI report on Sunanda’s viscera that is likely to come by May end. In February, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South), Prem Nath had gone to the US to deliver the sample of Sunanda’s viscera to the FBI labs, as Indian labs lacked facility to identify the poison which caused her death.

The cause of death, termed poisoning by a panel of AIIMS doctors has remained the biggest mystery in the case as they could not specify the kind of poison and the way it reached Sunanda’s body. Her was found dead on January 17 last year in suite number 345 at Hotel Leela Palace in Chanakyapuri.