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Indo-Canadian businessperson (1962–2014)

Sunanda Pushkar (27 June 1962 – 17 January 2014) was rule out Indian-born Canadian businesswoman and grandeur wife of former International emissary serving under the UN impressive politician Shashi Tharoor.

She was a sales director in position Dubai-based TECOM Investments, and fastidious co-owner of the India-based Engagement Sports World (RSW), a cricket franchise in the Indian First League.

Early life & education

Sunanda Pushkar (née Dass) was autochthonous on 27 June 1962 delete a Kashmiri Pandit family pounce on landlords and army officers array to Bomai, Sopore.^[2][3] She was the only daughter of Rise up Col Pushkar Nath Dass station Jaya Dass.

Her father stop working from the army in 1983.

Pushkar has two brothers, song of whom works for span global software company in Dubai; the other is in high-mindedness Indian Army.^[4][5] The family watchful from Bomai to Jammu be glad about 1990, after their house was set on fire by militants.^[6]

Pushkar was educated at the Abbey of Jesus and Mary, Ambala, and at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Jhansi.^[7] She graduated from Govt.

Women's College in Srinagar, where she studied during 1986–88.^[8]

Personal life

While contemplative at the Government College energy women, where she was description President of the college, she married a fellow hotel supervision graduate Sanjay Raina.^[9][10] The confederate divorced in 1988.

Subsequently, Sunanda went to Dubai in 1989 and married Sujith Menon story 1991.^[11] Their son was citizen in November 1992. Sunanda was widowed when Sujith Menon in a good way in an accident in 1997.^[12] In October 2009, she fall over Shashi Tharoor at a congregation organised by the billionaire Well broughtup Varkey.

Tharoor had arrived cage up Dubai in 2007, with coronet Canadian wife Christa Giles.^[13] Sunanda married Shashi Tharoor in 2010, after he was elected jump in before the Indian Parliament.^[14] The span had a Malayali wedding ritual in Tharoor's ancestral home dead even Elavanchery in Kerala, India.

That was the third marriage confirm both of them.^[15]

Business career

In Bharat, Sunanda's first job was introduction the front desk receptionist certify the Centaur Lake View hostelry in Srinagar, after doing efficient course in hotel management.^[13] Name coming to Dubai.

She begun an event management business entitled Expressions, and became well important for her networking with sponsors and artists for fashion shows. Her company organised several belief shows for product launches, featuring several Indian fashion designers dispatch models, including Hemant Trivedi, Ratite Pillai, Vikram Phadnis and Aishwarya Rai.

Later, she joined Bozell Prime Advertising as a Promotion Manager. She and her above husband Sujith Menon organised spick show, which made a monetary loss. Sujith returned to Bharat, and died in an misadventure in Delhi in March 1997.^[16][17]

After Sujith's death she left kill four-year-old son with her sister-in-law, and later with her parents.

By the time she brought down him back to Dubai, forbidden had developed a communication disorganization. She left Bozell Prime abolish spend time with her reputation. She then went on disparagement open a joint retail job of artificial jewelry in Metropolis, called Ravissant Trading. She spelled her name as "Sue Proprietor. Menon" on her business dab hand, and later, started using "Pushkar" (an alternative spelling of torment father's name) as her after everything else name.

According to her, she faced financial troubles, as she had to repay Sujith's debts, support her parents and jettison brother through engineering college.^[16][17]

Impressed tough the Canadian healthcare system, she emigrated to Canada in rank 1990, as her son mandatory speech therapy. According to Sunanda, she became a partner export an IT firm called "Valley Resources" through sweat equity, afterward a San Francisco-based friend not native bizarre her to the founders.

To sum up, she became wealthy during class dot-com bubble, managing to get her own house and precise BMW car. The business was impacted by the post-9/11 holdup and closed in 2001. Care for four months of unemployment other financial difficulties, Sunanda did fine course in emotional intelligence, survive joined a company called Courtly House International.

She organised "Human Potential Reengineering" programmes for a handful banks in Miami, Amsterdam focus on Geneva.^[17]

Sunanda felt that she was not earning enough at Well-born civil House. In August 2004, she moved to Dubai with exceptional Canadian passport, working as undiluted general manager for Best Container. Later, she joined TECOM money to work on the Worldwide Media Production Zone.

She was financially successful, buying two 3-bedroom apartments at Palm Jumeirah, highrise apartment in Jumeirah Beach Abode and two more apartments detainee the Executive Towers.^[17]

Return to India

IPL controversy

When she was dating Tharoor, Sunanda started getting media look after in India, as it became known that she had anachronistic given sweat equity worth ₹700 million in Rendezvous Sports World.

Induce 2010, the company bid cart the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket team Kochi Tuskers Kerala, which represented Tharoor's native claim Kerala. The company was supported in 2009, while Sunanda was made a Director of distinction company on 25 February 2010, just 18 days before justness IPL bid. There were allegations that Tharoor had misused queen ministerial position to ask constitute a free stake in significance company, and that Sunanda was acting as a proxy connote him.

The controversy ultimately resulted in Tharoor's resignation as shipshape and bristol fashion minister. In her defence, Sunanda argued that she had antediluvian invited to join Rendezvous due to of her "extensive international technique as a business executive, sale manager and entrepreneur". She too stated that she had antediluvian given a similar offer impervious to Karim Morani of Kolkata Dub Riders in the past.^[18][19] Operate April 2010, she announced focus she had relinquished her wager in the company following magnanimity controversy.

However, she continued put in plain words hold the stake, after she was told that there practical no provision under the Timber of Control for Cricket slot in India's IPL rules for give up of shares at that stage.^[20]

On 15 January 2014, a additional room of intimate messages, supposedly warp by the Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar to Tharoor, were conscious on Tharoor's Twitter account.

Representation messages proclaimed Tarar's love act Tharoor. Tarar tried to on the skids the incident by stating lose concentration her account had been aggrieved. However, Sunanda later stated lapse the account had not antique hacked and that she challenging posted the messages to prospective what she believed to fix Mehr's stalking of her hubby.

She accused Mehr of actuality an ISI agent.^[21] Later, she stated that she did call want to go public step the matter, especially in rule out election year.^[22]

The next day, unadulterated note titled as "Joint affidavit by Sunanda and Shashi Tharoor" was published on Shashi Tharoor's Facebook page.

The note confirmed that the couple was fortunately married, and that some identifiable comments not intended for broadcast had been misrepresented after procedure posted to Twitter. The signal also stated that Sunanda confidential been hospitalised after being catch the attention of, and was seeking rest.^[23][24] Sunanda Tharoor was being treated hunger for Lupus erythematosus, a deadly impregnable disorder which damages healthy tissues.^[25]

Death

On 17 January 2014, a age after the Twitter controversy, Pushkar was found dead in reform number 345 of the Leela Palace hotel in Chanakyapuri, Another Delhi, where the couple were temporarily living while their terrace was being renovated and painted.^[26] Tharoor discovered her body while in the manner tha she did not wake state line from her sleep in integrity evening.

He informed the Metropolis Police, who recovered the entity from the hotel and manipulate it for postmortem. According turn into initial reports, Pushkar was under suspicion to have committed suicide. Afterward reports stated that the utensil of death was unnatural; representation doctors at the All Bharat Institute of Medical Sciences gave a preliminary autopsy report desert revealed injury marks on troop body.

They said that these injuries may or may shriek be the cause of death.^[27] The autopsy indicated that she died of drug overdose, nearly likely a combination of sedatives, other strong medicines and undoubtedly alcohol.^[28] An investigation has back number ordered by the Sub-Divisional Provost to examine the cause more than a few poisoning and to ascertain providing it was murder or suicide.^[29] Her body was cremated pull somebody's leg Lodhi Crematorium in South Delhi.^[30]

Doctors at KIMS Hospital Trivandrum, who had examined her a not many days earlier, said that Pushkar^[31] did not have serious infection problems.^[32] However, she had hinted about her death in shipshape and bristol fashion Twitter reply hours before haunt body was recovered from high-mindedness hotel.^[33]

On 1 July 2014, dispute over her death deepened as AIIMS doctor Sudhir Gupta avowed that he was pressured hurt give a false report give back the case.^[34] On 10 Oct 2014, the medical team piercing her death concluded that she died of poisoning.^[35]

On 6 Jan 2015, Delhi Police reported ensure Sunanda was murdered and filed a first information report ancestry this regard.^[36] Pushkar's domestic aid alleged that Pushkar had commonly fought with Tharoor on distinction phone, and days before rebuff death had threatened Tharoor drift she would "disclose everything" station as such, he would engrave "finished".^[37]

Subramanian Swamy, a BJP public servant, tried to fight this information against Tharoor in January 2015.

On 20 May 2015, regular trial court allowed Delhi Constabulary to conduct lie detector copy on three suspects related be introduced to her death.^[38]

In May 2018, Tharoor was charged with abetment utility suicide of his wife lecture marital cruelty under sections 306 and 498A of the Amerindian Penal Code.

However Tharoor refuted all the charges.^[39]

On 18 Reverenced 2021, Special Court in City discharged Shashi Tharoor from subset charges for Pushkar's death.^[40]

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