
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the city police and co-accused Aruna Chadha to file written submissions on the plea of latter seeking quashing of fresh charges, including abetment of rape, against her in the former air hostess Geetika Sharma suicide case.
"Brief synopsis be filed, indicating the evidence relied upon by both the parties with the respective page numbers, within four weeks. Re-notify on July 3," Justice GP Mittal said. The court had earlier issued the notice to Delhi Police summoning trial court records in the case involving former Haryana home minister Gopal Kanda and Chadha as accused.
Besides the charge of abetment of suicide, the lower court had recently invoked some other harsher penal provisions relating to rape, unnatural sex and their abatement, against Kanda and Chadha. She had sought dropping of fresh charges.
During the hearing, senior advocate UU Lalit, appearing for Chadha, said, "The trial judge had turned upside down the principles of criminal jurisprudence by invoking the charges of abetment of rape against her."...
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09:59 PM, May 29, 2013

New Delhi: A fast track court on Monday commenced trial in the suicide case of an ex-air hostess in which former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda is the main accused. Kanda is facing trial for alleged offence of rape, unnatural offence and abetting suicide of the air hostess, who had worked in his company. His aide Aruna Chadha is also an accused and has been charged with abetting the offences of...

11:43 PM, May 27, 2013

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),...

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

The Delhi Police on Saturday told a court here that the suicide notes of former air hostess Geetika Sharma and her mother should be considered as concrete evidence against former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda and his aide Aruna Chaddha. ...

05:37 PM, Mar 30, 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

Six months after the suicide of MDLR employee Geetika Sharma, there is a fresh twist in the case. Geetika's mother Anuradha committed suicide on Friday. In a two-page suicide note, Anuradha has blamed former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda and MDLR manager Aruna Chadha - the duo are already in custody over Geetika's suicide. ...

07:31 AM, Feb 16, 2013

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10:59 PM, Feb 15, 2013

Geetika Sharma had committed suicide last year and in her suicide note, she had alleged harassment by former Haryana Home Minister Gopal Kanda. ...

10:13 PM, Feb 15, 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

As former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda continued to remain in jail for his alleged involvement in the suicide case of former air hostess Geetika Sharma, two of Haryana ministers have come out in public in defence of their former colleague. The ministers were speaking at an event organised in Sirsa to celebrate Kanda's 47th birthday. ...

05:40 PM, Dec 31, 2012

The Delhi High Court has dismissed the bail plea of Aruna Chaddha, an accused in former flight attendant Geetika Sharma's suicide, adding it will pass a detailed order later. ...

04:32 PM, Dec 03, 2012

New Delhi: In a setback to ex-Haryana Home minister Gopal Kanda, the Delhi High Court on Monday rejected his bail plea in connection with the Geetika Sharma suicide case. Kanda is the main accused in the case. Geetika Sharma worked as an air-hostess in the Kanda-owned and now-defunct MDLR Airlines. Later on, she was made a director at a subsidiary company of MDLR, a job which she quit within months....

03:34 PM, Nov 19, 2012

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