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 (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.
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 her to take the extreme step and that pressure was created on her mind to make her submit to the
07:46 AM, May 10, 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
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
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: The Delhi Police on Saturday is likely to file a chargesheet in the Geetika Sharma suicide case. The key accused Former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda and MDLR executive Aruna Chadha will be produced before a court on Saturday. 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...
06:31 AM, Oct 06, 2012
New Delhi: Former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda's and MDLR employee Aruna Chaddha judicial custody has been extended till October 6 in the Geetika Sharma suicide case. Kanda and Chaddha are accused of abetting the former MDLR employee's 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...
02:47 PM, Sep 25, 2012
New Delhi: Former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda's judicial custody ends on Tuesday in the Geetika Sharma suicide case. Kanda and MDLR employee Aruna Chaddha will be produced before a Delhi court on Tuesday. On September 11, the court had extended the custody of the former Haryana minister and his aide as investigations were still going on. Kanda and Chaddha are accused of abetting the former MDLR employee's suicide on August...
07:59 AM, Sep 25, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday extended the judicial custody of former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda and that of his aide Aruna Chaddha in the Geetika Sharma suicide case by 14 days, conducting its proceedings through video conferencing. Metropolitan Magistrate Bhupinder Singh remanded Kanda and Chaddha to judicial custody till September 25 after the Delhi police said investigation in the case was still on. The duo was not...
02:24 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Mumbai: Bollywood actress Nupur Mehta is being questioned in Mumbai in connection with the Geetika Sharma death case. Mehta was a Vice-President in the now-defunct MDLR Airlines, the aviation company floated by former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda. Both the accused Aruna Chaddha and Gopal Kanda are already in the judicial custody. Earlier, Kanda's aide Aruna Chaddha, had denied her involvement in it and claimed the former airhostesses took the...
03:38 PM, Sep 04, 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
Gurgaon: Former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda, accused of abetting the suicide of flight attendant Geetika Sharma, was let off by police in a 2008 case of assault on income tax officials, an official said. Kanda was the main accused in the assault on income tax officials during a raid at his MDLR Airlines office, but he along with his relative, an additional chief judicial magistrate in Rajasthan's Barmer district,...
03:22 AM, Aug 26, 2012
New Delhi: In the latest development in the Geetika Sharma suicide case, the Delhi Police have claimed that Geetika wanted to end all relations with former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda and the MDLR Airlines. However, the police said, the former minister was determined to not let Geetika go. The Delhi Police also feel that Geetika had become a victim of false promises coupled with threats from Kanda. Based on the...
07:50 PM, Aug 24, 2012
New Delhi: The two suicide notes recovered from the house of former flight attendant Geetika Sharma in New Delhi were written on the day she hung herself earlier this month, police said on Thursday. Police said that the notes were examined and analysed thoroughly and it was found that these, one bearing an August date and the other a May date, were written on the day of the incident in...
11:19 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: Former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda has reportedly told the police that he was not in touch with Geetika Sharma for the past 45 days. The 23-year-old former employee of the Kanda-owned MDLR Group committed suicide on August 5 alleging mental harassment at the hands of Kanda and a senior executive of MDLR, Aruna Chadha. Meanwhile, the police have gotten in touch with Ankita, another person who had been...
02:47 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Thursday took former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda, the key accused in the Geetika Sharma suicide case, for a routine medical examination to a hospital on court orders. Kanda was sent to seven days' police custody on August 18. The suicide note left behind by Geetika Sharma squarely blamed Kanda and one of his MDLR senior employees, Aruna Chadha for her suicide. ...
01:21 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Police is likely to question Bollywood starlet Nupur Mehta in the Geetika Sharma suicide case. Nupur Mehta was a vice president in the now defunct MDLR Airlines, the aviation company floated by former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda, key accused in the Geetika suicide case. Another MDLR official Shivroop's role in sending forged emails to Emirates Airlines when Geetika was working in Dubai is also being investigated....
12:01 PM, Aug 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police will continue questioning former Haryana minister and main accused in the Geetika Sharma suicide case, Gopal Goyal Kanda on Tuesday. The police are looking to subject Kanda to a brain-mapping test as they say he has not been cooperating with the investigations. Meanwhile, co-accused in the case and a key Kanda aide, Aruna Chadha will be produced in court on Tuesday. The police have sought...
10:16 AM, Aug 21, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Police will be questioning former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda on Sunday. Kanda was sent to police custody for a week following his surrender on Saturday. He was charged for abetting Geetika Sharma's suicide on the August 5 after he was named in the former airhostess' suicide note. Kanda is the MD of MDLR Airlines. Kanda had followed her to Dubai where she had received a fake letter...
06:21 AM, Aug 19, 2012
New Delhi: After giving the Delhi Police the slip for 13 consecutive days, former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda finally surrendered in the wee hours of Saturday morning. The MDLR Airlines owner, a prime accused in the suicide of air-hostess Geetika Sharma, surrendered amidst much chaos and high drama. But what's most shocking is the cat-and-mouse game that this Sirsa MLA was playing with the police. Sources said that Gopal...
10:07 PM, Aug 18, 2012
