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Eugene

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Tue Jan 21, 2014, 10:07 AM Jan 2014

Indian minister Shashi Tharoor's wife 'died of drug overdose'

Source: The Guardian

Indian minister Shashi Tharoor's wife 'died of drug overdose'

Jason Burke in Delhi
theguardian.com, Tuesday 21 January 2014 13.18 GMT

The wife of an Indian government minister, found dead by her husband in a luxury hotel in Delhi last week, died of a drug overdose, local media have reported.

Doctors who conducted an autopsy on Sunanda Pushkar, 52, have been quoted attributing the cause of death to "drug poisoning."

Dr Amit Gupta, spokesman of the hospital in the Indian capital where the autopsy was conducted, confirmed to the BBC that the "preliminary report shows there was drug overdose".

Pushkar was married to Shashi Tharoor who, though only a junior human resources development minister, is one of the current Indian government's highest profile members.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/21/indian-minister-shashi-tharoor-wife-died-drug-overdose
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