Sunanda Pushkar was murdered and the suspicion pointed towards Former Union minister Shashi Tharoor .Even her family believes Tharoor's role in her death.Pushkar brother Ashok Kumar said that Pushkar murder was planned . Ashok Kumar said to a electronic media Pushkar was very upset about the closeness her husband shared with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar.Sunanda's close friend and a senior journalist Nalini Singh has recorded a statement before a SDM that the couple had been quarreling over Shashi's affair with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar. Once Sunanda got to know about the affair the relations between the couple came under strain.Not only this the couple fought bitterly all the way on a flight from Thiruvananthapuram to Delhi on January 15. The spat between the couple even drew the attention of other passengers travelling in the same flight.