Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor told a magistrate court here on Wednesday that television news anchor Arnab Goswami had deliberately sullied his image to increase the ratings for the newly launched Republic TV.

Clad in his trade-mark light blue cotton kurta, Mr. Tharoor spend over 15 minutes in the witness box articulating the grief he had endured when the channel had “unfairly” linked him to his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death in a hotel suite in New Delhi in 2014.