Sunanda Pushkar death case: Delhi court grants Congress leader Shashi Tharoor bail

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor was today granted regular bail by a Delhi court in his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death case.

The Thiruvananthapuram MP, who was summoned as an accused in the case, appeared before the court and informed it that he had already been granted anticipatory bail in the case by a sessions court on July 5.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal then directed him to furnish a bail bond of Rs 1 lakh and one surety of like amount as directed by the sessions court and converted the interim relief to regular bail.

He was also directed not to leave the country without permission, nor to tamper with evidence or try to influence the witnesses.

Both the Public prosecutor and Tharoor's counsel opposed the applications moved by senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy seeking Court's nod to allow him to assist the prosecution and a direction to the Delhi police to produce the vigilance inquiry report.

While Tharoor's counsels questioned Swamy's locus standi in the whole matter, the court set 26th July as the date for the scrutiny of documents and consideration of the application.

On Wednesday, the court reserved its order on Tharoor's anticipatory bail plea in connection with the same. The Special Investigation Team (SIT) opposed Tharoor's anticipatory bail plea.

Earlier on May 24, the Delhi court, which was hearing the case, transferred the matter to the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Vishal.

On May 14, the Delhi Police had filed a charge sheet in the court, in which it named Tharoor as an accused, under sections 306 (Abetment of suicide) and 498A (Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Tharoor, however, had dismissed the charge sheet filed as "preposterous".

Sunanda was found dead in a suite of a luxury hotel in the city on the night of January 17, 2014. The couple was staying in the hotel, as the official bungalow of Shashi Tharoor was being renovated at that time.