Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday termed reports appearing in a television channel in connection with the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar as "misrepresentations and outright lies".
"Exasperating farrago of distortions, misrepresentations and outright lies being broadcast by an unprincipled showman masquerading as a journalist," Tharoor said in a Facebook post.
"I am angered that someone would exploit a human tragedy for personal gain and TRPs. I challenge him to prove his false claims in a court of law," the former UN diplomat said.
The Arnab Goswami-led Republic TV had on Monday released a series of 11 audio tapes alleging that Tharoor and his assistant Narayan were deliberately stopping Sunanda from talking to the media. Sunanda was known to have wanting to reveal details of some major wrongdoing before she died under mysterious circumstances.
Here are some of the revelations by the newly-launched TV channel.
The first of the #SunandaMurderTapes: Tharoor, can you deny this? pic.twitter.com/nICYWCniUI
— Republic (@republic) May 8, 2017
The second of the #SunandaMurderTapes reveal that Sunanda was desperate to speak out pic.twitter.com/7Ao1bUZwx3 — Republic (@republic) May 8, 2017
The third of the #SunandaMurderTapes reveals how Republic TV's Prema Sridevi contacted Sunanda Pushkar pic.twitter.com/X85YX8i4ua
— Republic (@republic) May 8, 2017
"Sahab [Shashi Tharoor] doesn't want ma'am to speak" - fourth of the #SunandaMurderTapes pic.twitter.com/xdJPHGoe8R — Republic (@republic) May 8, 2017
Sunanda Pushkar was found dead at a suite in a five star hotel in South Delhi on the night of 17 January 2014. The death had come in the backdrop of a Twitter controversy that broke out on a few days back where she had blamed a Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar of stalking her husband.
With inputs from PTI
Updated Date: May 10, 2017 16:34 PM
