A murder mystery which cannot be solved.

Can a woman be killed twice? Yes, the first time when she is poisoned and the second time when her murder is covered up to save the killer. Sunanda Pushkar was no ordinary woman. She was rich and was married to Congress politician, Shashi Tharoor who was a minister in the last government. Her marriage to Mr Tharoor was certainly eventful. She became embroiled in a financial controversy as a partner in a consortium that bid for a cricket team called Kochi Tuskers which was ejected from the Indian Premier League. Other politicians have alleged money laundering in that franchise and claimed that she was murdered to shut her up. In a series of tweets she accused a Pakistani journalist, Mehr Taraar of stalking her husband. What was a minister doing with a Pakistani woman? Pushkar died on 17 Jamuary, 2014 and suddenly after almost a year Delhi Police are claiming that she was murdered. And that she was poisoned with Polonium 210. How did they arrive at such a conclusion and why now? Polonium has been used for poisoning people in the past but being a highly radioactive mineral, access to it is restricted only to senior government officials and scientists. It apparently has a half life of 138 days so cannot be detected now. How very convenient. The doctor who conducted the autopsy has been insisting that she had been poisoned but was ignored. He says that 2 former ministers pressured him to report that her death was due to natural causes. Have the police questioned those 2 ministers as to why they wanted to interfere in a criminal investigation? Mr Thoroor is also supposed to have written to the Delhi Police Commissioner alleging that the police had beaten up his domestic help to extract a false confession implicating him. A few days before her death Pushkar had a thorough medical check up at a super-specialty hospital in Kerala who found nothing wrong with her, which was the opinion of doctors at AIIMS as well. The police are going to send her viscera abroad because India does not have even one laboratory which can look for unusual poisons. They suspect that her clothes were changed by the assailants so they are going to study all the CCTV footage provided by the hotel. What were they doing the whole of last year? They are not sure if the poison was administered orally or by injection. That is really hilarious. Would a strong young woman not scream her lungs out and put up an almighty struggle if someone was trying to inject her against her will? Unless she had been drugged so that she was too drowsy to resist. In which case a hypnotic should be detectable in her stomach contents. The police are not to blame. Politicians must have been behind it. But who? That, sadly, will remain a mystery.