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New Delhi, Aug 19 (TIWN) A Delhi court, while discharging Congress MP Shashi Tharoor in the case related to death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar, said there is nothing on record to show he had "provoked, incited or induced the deceased to commit suicide", and that she might have felt distressed or mentally disturbed with his alleged extra-marital relation, "but mental disturbances does not constitute the offence of abetment".
In the 176-page order, special judge Geetanjali Goel said: "There is nothing to demonstrate any overt act on the part of the accused (Tharoor) and only on the ground that he continued the alleged affair with MT (a Pakistani journalist) (even if it is assumed) and exchanged messages with her, it cannot be presumed that he had abetted the commission of suicide by the deceased."
The court added the prosecution has not been able to point out even one instance where the accused had done something purposefully which facilitated the commission of the offence.
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