Viscera samples of Sunanda may be sent abroad for testing

Delhi Police are considering sending viscera samples of former union minister Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar, who was found dead in a hotel here in January, to forensic laboratories abroad to determine the type of poison that is suspected to have caused her death.

The AIIMS medical board had, in its second report submitted to police recently, confirmed poisoning as the reason behind her death but did not mention the type of poison that caused her death. They had listed some kind of poisons most of which were radioactive isotopes that cannot be detected by labs in India.According to a police official, police are now mulling sending viscera samples to a UK-based laboratory which has facilities to test all kinds of poisons.