New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday was granted a regular bail by Delhi’s Patilala House court in a case related to Sunanda Pushkar’s death.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal 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.
Tharoor has been charged under sections 498A (husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty) and 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), but has not been arrested in the case.
The court has also set July 26 for next hearing to consider BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s application seeking permission to assist the prosecution the case.
The leader had moved the anticipatory bail plea on Tuesday, days before he was to appear in the court.
Pushkar 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.
