Just days before her death, Sunanda Pushkar reportedly told Indian politician Shashi Tharoor that she had no wish to live.
In an email to her husband, Pushkar said she had lost her will to live and that all she prayed was for death, the Delhi police said in a 3,000-page charge-sheet accusing Tharoor of abetting her suicide.
"I have no desire to live... all I pray for is death," Pushkar wrote in an email to her husband just nine days before she was found dead in her suite at a luxury hotel in Delhi.
Pushkar died due to poisoning, the court was told. Some 27 tablets of Alprax were found in her room but it is not clear how many she had. The charge-sheet has described Tharoor "as a husband (who) ignored Sunanda when she was sliding or slipping into depression and she had Alprax." They had frequent fights and "though injury marks were not serious, they are consistent with claims that the couple fought."
Tharoor has also been accused of ignoring "her calls and disconnected her calls in the days before her death," the special probe team found.
Pushkar was found dead in the suite of a five star hotel in New Delhi on January 17, 2014.
The prosecutor said they have sufficient material to prove that Tharoor, a parliamentarian from Kerala, prompted her to commit suicide. Tharoor has called the charges of abetting his wife's suicide "preposterous".
"I have taken note of the filing of this preposterous charge sheet &intend to contest it vigorously. No one who knew Sunanda believes she would ever have committed suicide, let alone abetment on my part," Tharoor tweeted.
"It does not speak well of the methods or motivations of the Delhi Police. In oct 17, the Law Officer made a statement in the Delhi High Court that they have not found anything against anyone & now in 6 months they say that I have abetted a suicide. unbelievable!," Tharoor added.
