Delhi Police is now considering to send the viscera samples of Sunanda Pushkar, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a hotel suit in January this year, to advanced forensic laboratories abroad to identify the kind of poison that caused her death.
The AIIMS medical board in its second report submitted to police recently had confirmed poisoning as the reason behind her death which had been their earlier stand too, but had not mentioned the kind of poison that caused her death. They had listed some kind of poisons, most of which were radioactive isotopes that cannot be detected by labs in India.
According to a senior police official, police is now mulling to send the viscera samples to a UK-based laboratory which had advanced facilities to test all kinds of poisons.
“With this almost clear that Sunanda died of poisoning, the biggest question which remains in the case is that the kind of poison and how it reached her body. If these questions can be answered, the case could head to its logical end,” the official said on condition of anonymity.