<span style="color: #222222;">The Delhi High Court today sought the AAP Government's response on Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's plea that the police be directed to place before the trial court certain tweets of his wife Sunanda Pushkar before her death in 2014.<br />''&nbsp;<br />''Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri issued notice to the Delhi Government and asked it to file a status report on the petition by Tharoor who has claimed that the tweets of his wife, in the days prior to her death, would be an indication of her state of mind. The Congress MP had moved the high court against a trial court order of 30th of January dismissing his plea for directions to the police to place before it certain tweets of Pushkar. <br />''<br />''The court said, the tweets were available in the public domain and the Congress leader can access it from there and place it before the trial court. To this, Senior Advocate Vikas Pahwa, appearing for Tharoor, told the high court that arguments on charge are going on and he would have to rely on the prosecution evidence, which includes the tweets.<br />''<br />''&nbsp;After hearing brief arguments, the high court listed the matter for further hearing on 18th of March. The former Union Minister was accused by Delhi Police under Sections 498-A &nbsp;and of the Indian Penal Code. Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in a suite of luxury hotel Leela Palace in Delhi's Chanakyapuri on the night of 17th of January 2014.</span><br />
News On AIR | February 27, 2020 8:34 PM
Sunanda death case: Delhi HC seeks govt stand on Tharoor's plea for production of tweets