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
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
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: 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: 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
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: 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 investigation into former MDLR airhostess Geetika Sharma's suicide appears to have hit a dead end as the police seems to have botched up the case again. It drew the court's ire for failing to keep details of the victim's post mortem report confidential. The worst fears in the Geetika Sharma suicide case have come true. After struggling to arrest former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda amidst fears...
07:29 AM, 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: The plea of Delhi Police seeking custody of former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda's aide Aruna Chadha was on Monday rejected by the court. The court asked the Delhi Police to file another application on Tuesday while continuing to keep Chadha in judicial custody. The police had demanded three-day custody of Kanda's aide saying they wanted to confront her with the former minister as there were contradictions in their...
05:27 PM, Aug 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Sunday seized servers from former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda's MDLR office in Gurgaon in connection with the Geetika Sharma suicide case. The Delhi Police took Kanda to his Gurgaon office after questioning him in connection with the case. Besides servers, hard disks, three files and articles wrapped in a bedsheet were also recovered from Kanda's now-defunt MDLR Airlines after three-hour search. Kanda was later...
03:45 PM, Aug 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Sunday questioned former Haryana minister of state for Home Gopal Kanda in connection with the Geetika Sharma suicide case. Kanda is the owner of the MDLR Group where Geetika was an employee. Kanda was arrested on Saturday morning after he surrendered at the Ashok Vihar Police Station in New Delhi. He was sent to seven days police custody. The Delhi Police later took Kanda...
10:33 AM, Aug 19, 2012
New Delhi: Ten days after former air-hostess Geetika Sharma killed herself, Delhi Police is yet to trace former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda who is accused of abetting her suicide. Investigators have conducted searches and raids in around 50 places and questioned around 25 people but they were unable to trace Kanda, the owner of erstwhile MDLR airline where 23-year-old Sharma was working. Kanda was served with a notice to join...
02:19 PM, Aug 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda's anticipatory bail plea. Kanda, who is the chief of the now-defunct MDLR Airlines, has been charged with abetting the suicide of his former employee Geetika Sharma. During the hearing, police told the court Kanda's custody is vital for the investigation. According to the police's lawyer Kanda's custody was needed to find the source...
05:20 PM, Aug 14, 2012
