{"id":285383,"date":"2018-02-23T16:03:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T10:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=285383"},"modified":"2018-02-23T16:03:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T10:33:11","slug":"sc-issues-notice-to-delhi-police-into-sunanda-pushkar-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-issues-notice-to-delhi-police-into-sunanda-pushkar-case\/","title":{"rendered":"SC issues notice to Delhi Police into Sunanda Pushkar case"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_208745\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-208745\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Sunanda_Pushkar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-208745\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Sunanda_Pushkar-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"File photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" data-id=\"208745\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-208745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the recent development in Sunanda Pushkar death case, the Supreme Court on February 23 has issued a notice to Delhi Police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The apex court has sought a response from the Delhi police on a plea filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy who has been urging for a court-monitored SIT probe into the death of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On October 26 last year, the\u00a0Delhi\u00a0High Court had rejected his plea and termed it as &#8216;Political Interest Litigation&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This is perhaps a textbook example of political interest litigation dressed up as public interest litigation,&#8221; the High Court bench had remarked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his plea, the BJP leader had alleged that &#8220;very influential people are involved in the case, leading to attempts to protect them and the matter has faced a lot of unnecessary delay already&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The court has issued notice to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=delhi\">Delhi\u00a0<\/a>Police to answer all the charges I have made in my petition,\u201d Swamy said to the media after hearing SC\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent development in Sunanda Pushkar death case, the Supreme Court on February 23 has issued a notice to Delhi Police. The apex court has sought a response from the Delhi police on a plea filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy who has been urging for a court-monitored SIT probe into the death of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":208745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,39],"tags":[689,690,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}