Twitter storm as Delhi police file murder case into Sunanda Pushkar's death

News that the Delhi police have decided to file a murder case into the death of Shashi Tharoor’s late wife Sunanda Pushkar, have predictably created a Twitter storm. [caption id=“attachment_2032465” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] PTI[/caption] Pushkar was found dead in her New Delhi hotel room on 17 January 2014, in what was first believed to be a case of drug overdose. Since then, the case was reopened and a team of AIIMS doctors had submitted a fresh report to the police after examining her viscera and maintained that she died of poisoning. Within minutes of the announcement by the Delhi police, the name ‘Sunanda Pushkar’ was the top trend on Twitter India. People were busy retweeting the news, airing their favourite conspiracy theories and coming up with a few fresh ones. Here are some of the tweets: The first tweets captured reactions to the news:

Some tweets decried the Delhi police investigation:

Another group lauded Subramanian Swamy while pointing fingers at Shashi Tharoor

Others saw it as yet another opportunity for wry Twitter humour