Shashi Tharoor Slams Republic TV Claim That He Is Involved In Wife Sunanda’s Death, Says Prove It In Court

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on May 8, slammed Arnab Goswami’s Republic TV for claiming that he was involved in wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death.

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Calling the allegations false, Tharoor further challenged Goswami to prove his allegations in a court of law.

Exasperating farrago of distortions, misrepresentations&outright lies being broadcast by an unprincipled showman masquerading as a journalst

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) May 8, 2017

He called channel’s claim to be “exasperating farrago of distortions, misrepresentations, and outright lies” and said that he was “angered that someone would exploit a human tragedy for personal gain & TRPs.”

I am angered that someone would exploit a human tragedy for personal gain&TRPs. I challenge him to prove his false claims in a court of law.

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) May 8, 2017

Just hours before his tweet Goswami’s Republic TV had released a series of tapes that had recorded conversations between journalist Republic TV’s Prema Sridevi and Tharoor’s close aid Narayan along with few recorded conversation between Prema and Sunanda herself in which Sunanda wanted to speak to the media.

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The first of the #SunandaMurderTapes: Tharoor, can you deny this? pic.twitter.com/nICYWCniUI

— Republic (@republic) May 8, 2017

The ninth of the #SunandaMurderTapes reveals Tharoor’s assistant giving more information about the events before her death pic.twitter.com/qMc2BXKNQo

— Republic (@republic) May 8, 2017

The 10th and the 11th parts of the #SunandaMurderTapes show Tharoor’s assistant Narayan’s desperation to wake her up pic.twitter.com/HeHEJ1fGwr

— Republic (@republic) May 8, 2017

The channel had further alleged that post Sunanda’s death, her body was moved from room number 307 to 345 of the hotel ‘Leela’ thus indicating that the murder scene and body was tampered with before the investigation began.