Court allows Shashi Tharoor to travel US

A Delhi court on Tuesday allowed Congress leader Shashi Tharoor to travel to the US after he was stopped from going abroad pending a decision in his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death case. Tharoor is seeking re-election from Thiruvananthapuram parliamentary constituency. He is currently out on bail and needs courts' prior permission to travel abroad.

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday allowed Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, facing charges in Sunanda Pushkar death case, to travel to the US in May.

Tharoor, who is seeking re-election from Thiruvananthapuram parliamentary constituency, had moved an application in the court of special Judge Arun Bhardwaj, seeking permission to travel to the US for attending a conference and other events from May 5 to May 20.

The application was allowed by the court.

Tharoor, a former Union minister and husband of Sunanda Pushkar, is currently out on bail and needs courts' prior permission to travel abroad.

Pushkar was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a suite of a Delhi hotel on the night of January 17, 2014. The couple was staying in the hotel as their house was undergoing renovation.

Tharoor has been charged under section 306, abetment to suicide, and 498 A, husband or his relative subjecting woman to cruelty, of the Indian Penal Code. He had dismissed the charges as "preposterous".