Tharoor accuses ex-AIIMS forensic chief of concealing Sunanda Pushkar's autopsy report

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor Thursday told a Delhi court that former AIIMS forensic chief Sudhir Gupta concealed the post-mortem report of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.

Tharoor's lawyer cited the prosecution report and told Special Judge Arun Bhardwaj that Gupta, who no longer works with AIIMS, concealed the original copy of the report and was flashing the documents in the media.

"Original documents are with Dr Sudhir Gupta who no longer works with AIIMS. Those documents should not be with him. How can he carry documents wherever he goes? Those documents needed to be filed in the court.

"It is deliberately concealed. Gupta, who is retired already, is going and flashing documents in media," senior advocate Vikas Pahwa, appearing for Tharoor, said.

Pahwa made the allegations while seeking certain documents provided to him by the prosecution in electronic form, saying he was not able to access them.

"Each and every document on which the reliance is placed should be given," the counsel said.

Tharoor, meanwhile, was granted exemption from personal appearance by the court for the day, after a request was made by his counsel in this regard.

Special Public Prosecutor Atul Srivastava, appearing for Delhi police, opposed the submissions made by Tharoor's advocate saying that "26 adjournments were taken during 8 months 18 days, between the filing of charge sheet and the committal of case to the special court."