The following day the couple published a joint statement through Shashi's Facebook account.
The statement said that they were happily married and that some personal comments had been misunderstood after being posted on Twitter.
The statement said that they intended to remain the way they were. It added that Sunanda had taken ill and has been hospitalized.
The same day Sunanda checked into Leela Palace hotel in Delhi. According to a senior journalist, she had called her up then. Sunanda was very upset.
She said that Shashi had deleted messages of Mehr Tarar. The journalist tried to console her but she was under depression and was inconsolable. She was the last person Sunanda had interacted with before her death.