Hotel staffer held for rape bid on singer in Delhi

A hotel room attendant in south Delhi's Mehrauli was arrested after he allegedly attempted to rape a 22- year-old singer from Kolkata, who had arrived in the Capital to perform at a function.

The accused, identified as Deepak, works as a room attendant at Golden Tulip hotel at Mehrauli area. " He was arrested and sent to judicial custody for 14 days," a senior police officer said.

The officer said the accused, a native of Palwal in Haryana, was caught by the hotel staff and, thereafter, handed him over to them. He was arrested and booked under the charges of molestation and criminal intimidation.

Deepak had entered the singer's room to change the bed sheet on Thursday night.

The accused had then attempted to sexually assault the singer. On hearing the girl's scream, the hotel staff barged into the room and caught the accused red- handed.

The police said the victim came along with her troupea week ago and was performing at Chattarpur temple.

Sunanda Pushkar's death unnatural: Doctors

Doctors at AIIMS, who conducted autopsy on the body of Sunanda Pushkar, today said it was a case of "sudden, unnatural death" but ruled out poisoning even as police investigated various angles into death of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor's wife.

Injury marks were also found on the body of 52-year-old Pushkar, who was last night found dead in mysterious circumstances in luxury Leela Palace hotel in South Delhi.

The head of the three-member panel of doctors that conducted the autopsy on Pushkar, said, "We have conducted the postmortem examination... It is a case of sudden, unnatural death" but ruled out poisoning.

However, he said the team has preserved certain "biological samples for toxicological analysis as well as visco-pathological examination."

"We have completed the whole procedure. Samples for toxicological analysis means ruling out any poison. Some pathology of the heart has been preserved by us," he said.

Pushkar was found dead in her suite at the hotel and the body was shifted to AIIMS at around 3:30 AM for post-mortem.

Police is also expected to record statement of Tharoor, who was admitted to AIIMS following complaints of chest pain and was discharged later.

Pushkar and Tharoor were at the centre of a raging controversy when reports emerged that she was upset over reported text and tweet messages between her husband and Mehr Tarar, a Pakistani journalist.