( CNN ) -- The wife of a minister in India has died after a public controversy in which she reportedly accused her husband of having an affair with a Pakistani journalist , authorities said . Delhi Police spokesman Rajan Bhagat confirmed Friday that Sunanda Pushkar , wife of Minister Shashi Tharoor , has died , but he could n't confirm a cause of death until a postmortem examination is conducted . Her death comes just days after CNN-IBN and other Indian media reported that she had hacked into her husband 's Twitter account and tweeted that he was having an affair with a Pakistani journalist . That journalist , Mehr Tarar , however , dismissed the affair allegation in an article on the New Delhi Television website . On Thursday , a day before Pushkar 's death was revealed , Tarar described Pushkar 's purported tweets as `` wild allegations . '' `` Her tweets to me are so crazy that all I can do is laugh , '' Tarar said . After Pushkar 's death was announced , Tarar expressed shock on her Twitter account on Friday . `` I just woke up and read this . I 'm absolutely shocked . This is too awful for words . So tragic I do n't know what to say . Rest in peace , Sunanda , '' Tarar tweeted . Tarar spoke to CNN Friday , expressing grief and sorrow over Pushkar 's death . `` I have been up the whole night , frozen in one spot , unable to eat or even have a sip of water , '' Tarar said . `` She had a Twitter fight with me , and then she died . I did n't even get a chance to call her up , and clear the air , '' she added . `` She seemed larger than life , always smiling , and the manner in which she died would haunt me for a long , long time . '' Tarar also said the allegations of an affair were false . `` I had met the minister twice in my entire life and always in the presence of other people , '' Tarar said . `` We were in touch until June and then it was reduced to an e-mail or two in weeks. `` Pushkar , a businesswoman from Dubai , and Tharoor married in 2010.The couple was active in New Delhi 's glamorous social circles . On Thursday , Pushkar and Tharoor issued a statement , saying they were `` happily married , '' but that Pushkar had been hospitalized this week and was resting . `` We are distressed by the unseemly controversy that has arisen about some unauthorised tweets from our Twitter accounts , '' the couple said in the statement , which was linked to Tharoor 's Twitter page . `` Various distorted accounts of comments allegedly made by Sunanda have appeared in the press . It appears that some personal and private comments responding to these unauthorised tweets -- comments that were not intended for publication -- have been misrepresented and led to some erroneous conclusions , '' the couple said . On Pushkar 's Twitter account Wednesday , a tweet accused Tarar of stalking Pushkar 's husband : `` @ MehrTarar leave us Indians alone and stop talking to my huband and pleading with him its digrading respect youself ( sic ) as a woman . '' Another of the tweets purportedly from Pushkar said : `` @ MehrTarar the audacity of a woman desperaely ( sic ) in love with an Indian 'please shashi dont make me go i pleaded and begged i love u Shashi . ' `` CNN-IBN reported that Pushkar died in her room in a five-star hotel in New Delhi . The couple were staying at the hotel for a few days , said Abhinab Kumar , an aide to Tharoor . Tharoor is an Indian minister for human resource and development and a member of parliament . He is also the former minister of state for external affairs and former United Nations under-secretary-general . CNN 's Sumnima Udas and Jessica King contributed to this report .
NEW : Pakistani media : ` ` I met the minister twice in my entire life '' Pakistani media denies any affair and is shocked at death . Sunanda Pushkar , wife of Minister Shashi Tharoor , is dead , they say . She had publicly accused her husband of adultery with the Pakistani minister .