New Delhi: A chargesheet has been filed against former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda and his aide Aruna Chadha in the Geetika Sharma suicide case. The court says prima facie charges of rape, unnatural sex, abetment of suicide, conspiracy, forgery under the IPC and IT act have been made out against Kanda.
Kanda and Chadha have been chargesheeted under section 306 (abetment to suicide), 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 506 (criminal intimidation), 201 (destruction of evidence), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery with intention to cheat), 469 (forgery with intention to harm reputation) and 471 (using forged documents as genuine) of Indian Penal Code (IPC). They have also been booked under section 66-A of the Information and Technology Act which deals with hacking of computers.
In judicial custody since August 2012, Kanda and Chadha were named by 23-year-old airhostess Geetika in her suicide letter in 2012. Geetika, who was earlier employed with Kanda's MLDR airlines, was found dead on August 5 at her Ashok Vihar residence in North West Delhi. In her August 4 suicide note, Geetika had said she was ending her life due to "harassment" by Kanda and Chada. Kanda, 46, was forced to resign from his post of minister of state for home following the registration of case.
Police had in its chargesheet said that Kanda was obsessed with Geetika and he and Chadha had unleashed "a series of wilful and malicious acts of mental torture, threat, blackmail and stress" on her which led
03:48 PM, May 10, 2013
New Delhi: A trial court is expected to frame charges against former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda and his aide Aruna Chadha on Friday in the Geetika Sharma suicide case. Kanda and his employee were named by 23-year-old airhostess Geetika in her suicide letter in 2012. In judicial custody since August 2012, both Kanda and Chadha have been charge sheeted under section 306 (abetment of suicide), 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 506...
07:46 AM, May 10, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday reserved for May 10 its order on framing of charges against former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda and his aide Aruna Chadha in airhostess Geetika Sharma suicide case. District Judge and Additional Sessions Judge SK Sarvaria reserved his order on framing of charges against Kanda and his employee Chadha, who are accused of abetting the suicide of 23-year-old Geetika. Earlier in the day,...
07:15 PM, May 04, 2013
A day after his wife - Arunadha Sharma - committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan in her house, Geetika Sharma's grieving father Dinesh Sharma was seen venting his fury outside his residence in northwest Delhi and blaming former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda of driving his wife and daughter to death. ...
04:48 PM, Feb 16, 2013
Former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda and his aide Aruna Chaddha will be charged with abetment to suicide in former MDLR Airlines airhostess Geetika Sharma's mother suicide case. An FIR was lodged against them after police recovered a suicide note in which Geetika's mother had mentioned their names. ...
08:50 PM, Feb 15, 2013
Former MDLR Airlines airhostess Geetika Sharma's mother committed suicide on Friday. Geetika had also committed suicide in 2012, allegedly after she was harassed by former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda and his aide Aruna Chaddha, co-accused in the case. They both have, however, been denying the charge. ...
06:35 PM, Feb 15, 2013
Haryana Minister Shiv Charan Sharma, who had earlier defended Gopal Kanda, an accused in Geetika Sharma suicide case, by calling Geetika a 'mere servant', on Monday offered an apology saying, "I have not said anything about this girl. All government employees are servants. My comments are being presented in a distorted way." ...
10:27 PM, Jan 01, 2013
New Delhi: Former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda's aide Chand Shivroop on Wednesday turned an approver in the Geetika Sharma suicide case. Chand was arrested for sending false emails to Geetika, which threatened that she could face criminal charges by the Dubai government for not repaying a loan. Chand has told police that Kanda threatened him to send false emails to Geetika by saying that he would otherwise be sacked...
08:10 PM, Nov 07, 2012
New Delhi: Nearly a month after the city police filed chargesheet against him in the air hostess Geetika Sharma suicide case, former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda on Thursday moved Delhi High Court against the trial court's order dismissing his bail plea. The plea is likely to be listed for hearing on Friday before the court of Justice PK Bhasin. On September 20, the trial court had denied bail to Kanda,...
06:40 PM, Nov 01, 2012
New Delhi: Former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda's judicial custody ends on Wednesday. Kanda was arrested on August 18 for allegedly abetting the suicide of his former MDLR Airlines employee Geetika Sharma. Geetika had committed suicide on August 5. The sitting Haryana MLA was arrested on August 18 after he had surrendered before the police, 13 days after Geetika was found dead in her Ashok Vihar house in North West Delhi....
10:37 AM, Oct 17, 2012
New Delhi: Former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda gave a forged experience certificate to former flight attendant Geetika Sharma to create hurdles in her career moves, a chargesheet filed in a court in New Delhi on Saturday. Kanda did not want to lose Geetika as an employee and forged the certificate in a bid to try and retain her in his company, police said. The certificate was issued after Kanda...
12:49 AM, Oct 07, 2012
New Delhi: Prime accused in the Geetika Sharma suicide case, ex-Haryana Home minister Gopal Kanda and his close aide Aruna Chadha were on Saturday charged with abetment to suicide, criminal intimidation and destruction of evidence. A court took cognizance of the chargesheet and a case was filed under Sections 306, 506, 201, 467, 468 and 471 of the Indian Penal Code and 34/66 of the IT Act. The chargesheet said...
03:11 PM, Oct 06, 2012
New Delhi: The bail plea of MDLR executive Aruna Chaddha in connection with the Geetika Sharma suicide case will come up for hearing at a Delhi court on Friday. In her August 4 suicide note, the 23-year-old former air-hostess had said that she was ending her life due to "harassment" by Chaddha and former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda. Earlier, Chaddha's bail was rejected on September 7 saying the probe...
08:23 AM, Sep 21, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday rejected the bail application of former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda, who is one of the accused in the Geetika Sharma suicide case. Kanda had moved the Rohini court of District and Additional Sessions Judge SK Sarvaria in New Delhi for bail. Kanda's lawyer argued in the court that Geetika was mentally disturbed because of her parents not because of his client. The...
04:41 PM, Sep 20, 2012
New Delhi: Aruna Chadha, an accused in former flight attendant Geetika Sharma's suicide case, was denied bail by a Delhi court on Friday. Chadha was an official of the now-defunct MDLR Airlines where Geetika too worked. She was arrested on August 8 and the court had on Thursday extended her judicial custody till September 11. Former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda is the prime accused in the case. Geetika, 23,...
06:01 PM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: Aruna Chadha, an accused in former flight attendant Geetika Sharma's suicide case, moved a bail application in a Delhi court on Friday. A close associate of Chadha told IANS that her bail plea would be heard in the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Devender Kumar Jangala on Saturday. Chadha was an official of the now-defunct MDLR Airlines where Geetika too worked. She was arrested on August 8...
09:30 AM, Sep 01, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday extended till September 11 the judicial custody of former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda's employee Aruna Chaddha, accused in the Geetika Sharma suicide case. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Devender Kumar Jangala remanded Chaddha to 12-days judicial custody after the police said that the investigation in the case is still going on. Chaddha was produced in the court after expiry of her 14-day judicial...
03:38 PM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: Gopal Goyal Kanda, accused of abetting the suicide of his employee and former flight attendant Geetika Sharma, told a court in New Delhi on Tuesday that the case against him was politically motivated. He was sent to 14 days judicial custody. Metropolitan Magistrate Devender Kumar Jangala sent the former Haryana minister to judicial custody after the end of his interrogation in police custody. "The accused is remanded to...
05:46 PM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: Prime accused in the Geetika Sharma suicide case, ex-Haryana minister Gopal Kanda was on Tuesday sent to 14-day judicial custody by a Delhi court. Kanda's police custody ended on Tuesday. Meanwhile, a nine-member Delhi Police team carried out raid at his Sirsa residence and farmhouse on Monday. Geetika Sharma, a former employee at Kanda's MDLR Airlines, committed suicide on August 5. In her suicide note, she blamed Kanda...
03:50 PM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: Former Haryana Minister Gopal Goyal Kanda's police custody in the Geetika Sharma death case is ends on Tuesday. A nine-member Delhi Police team carried out raid at Kanda's Sirsa residence and farmhouse on Monday. Kanda is the prime suspect in the death of the former MDLR Airlines air stewardess who died on August 5. The former Haryana minister had reportedly told the police that he was not in...
08:39 AM, Aug 28, 2012
