Court reserves order on Tharoor's anticipatory bail plea
New Delhi, July 4 : A court here on Wednesday reserved order on the anticipatory bail plea of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, an accused in the suicide case of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.
Additional Sessions Judge Arvind Kumar said he would deliver the order on Thursday. Delhi Police has opposed Tharoor's plea. On June 5, the court took cognizance of the chargesheet filed by the police.
The 62-year-old MP has been asked to appear before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal on July 7.
Pushkar, 51, died under mysterious circumstances in a hotel room in Delhi on January 17, 2014, days after she alleged that her husband was having an affair with a Pakistani journalist.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
