New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday sought anticipatory bail from a Delhi court in links with the Sunanda Pushkar death case.

Worth mention here Tharoor was earlier summoned as an accused in the case by a Delhi court. Prompting the term and the charges as 'preposterous and baseless, Tharoor had been given time till July 7.

The Kerala MP has asserted that he is innocent of charges levelled against him but the Delhi court found 'sufficient grounds' to proceed against him. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal took cognisance of the accusations of alleged abetment of suicide and committing brutality by Tharoor towards Pushkar.

"I have heard the prosecutor. I have gone through and perused the charge sheet and the documents filed along with it. On the basis of police report (charge sheet), I take cognisance of offence of abetment of suicide of late Sunanda Pushkar and committing cruelty upon her by Dr Shashi Tharoor," the judge had said in his verdict.

In an almost 3,000-page charge sheet, the police had named Congress leader Tharoor as the only accused, alleging that he had subjected his wife to brutality.

The couple's household servant, Narayan Singh, was named one of the major witnesses in the case. It is noted that Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in a luxury hotel suite on the night of January 17, 2014.