Sunanda Pushkar death case: Delhi HC adjourns hearing for two weeks

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing on Sunanda Pushkar death case for two weeks.

Uphelding the hearing on the matter, the High Court told the Delhi Police that if you have anything new then come within two weeks and if you can't, then we will look into it, as per ANI. 

The Delhi Police told the court that there was no delay on their part in the case while addig that technical investigation was not totally in their hands because AIIMS and some foreign agencies were also involved in the case.

On the other hand, senior BJP leader Subramanium Swamy today moved a fresh plea in his pending petition seeking a court-monitored CBI-led special investigation (SIT) probe into Pushkar's death. 

Swamy submitted that forensic investigation by USA FBI and other agencies are just delaying the investigation. He said that if investigating agencies conclude that death is due to poison then it doesn't matter what type of poison it was. 

Earlier, a bench of justices G S Sistani and Chander Shekhar, during the hearing of Tharoor's stepson Shiv Menon's plea for his impleadment in the BJP leader's petition, had expressed concern over failure of the police to file a charge sheet in the case even after three-and-a-half years.

It had also sought Swamy's response on Menon's plea to implead him as a party in the proceedings before the high court.

Menon has also questioned Swamy's locus in seeking such a probe, alleging that he was doing it only for publicity.

The bench, however, had asked Delhi Police to make its stand clear by August one and refused to pass any restraining order against Swamy.

Menon's plea has also said that the investigating agency should be directed not to supply Swamy the copy of the status report with regard to the ongoing probe in the case.

Pushkar was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a suite of a five-star hotel in south Delhi on the night of January 17, 2014.