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
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's critically acclaimed two-part series 'Gangs Of Wasseypur' will be screened at the ongoing 37th Hong Kong International Film Festival. ...
04:39 PM, Mar 23, 2013
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06:44 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Seven persons, wanted for their alleged roles in the killings of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his younger brother Hardeep at a farm house here, today surrendered before a Delhi court which sent them to police custody for seven days. The seven accused, who were chargesheeted alongwith sacked Uttarakhand minorities panel chief SS Namdhari and 13 others for killings on November 17, 2012, appeared before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Raj...
05:35 PM, Mar 07, 2013
A personal security officer (PSO) of murdered liquor baron Ponty Chadha, deployed at his farmhouse in Delhi's Chhattarpur area, has committed suicide by shooting himself in his house in Gurgaon, police said on Thursday. ...
01:04 AM, Mar 01, 2013
Sacked Uttarakhand minorities panel chief SS Namdhari and 21 others were on Saturday chargesheeted for murder, conspiracy and kidnapping in the November 17, 2012 killing of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep in a shootout at a farmhouse in Delhi. ...
04:00 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
The Delhi police is likely to file on Friday its chargesheet before a court in New Delhi in the November 17 killing of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep in a shootout in a farmhouse in New Delhi. The Crime Branch of the Delhi Police, which had arrested sacked Uttarakhand minorities panel chief SS Namdhari and nine others for their alleged role in the case, will submit its...
05:31 AM, Feb 15, 2013
Actress Richa Chadda, who played the fiesty Nagma Khatoon in the 'Gangs of Wasseypur' series, is likely to feature in Vishal Bharadwaj's 'Dedh Ishqiya' alongside industry veterans Naseeruddin Shah and Madhuri Dixit. Bharadwaj's next home production hit a roadblock after actress Kangana Ranaut walked out of the project citing date issues. The makers are now left without a female actor to star alongside leading lady Madhuri. ...
03:24 PM, Jan 31, 2013
A Delhi court on Monday ordered initiation of proceedings to declare as absconders eight accused who could not be traced and questioned by police over the killing of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep in November 2012. The eight accused, all belonging to Uttar Pradesh, could be declared proclaimed offenders by the court if they fail to appear before it March 11, said Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mukesh...
10:50 PM, Jan 28, 2013
The judicial custody of sacked Uttarakhand minority panel chief S S Namdhari and nine others, arrested for their alleged role in the murder of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother, was extended on Friday till January 24 by a Delhi court. ...
06:40 PM, Jan 11, 2013
The driver of a firm associated with liquor baron late Ponty Chadha on Monday escaped with an amount to the tune of Rs 10 lakh from Gurdaspur district, police said. On the complaint of Jaspreet Singh Seth, Vice President of 'AB food grains', associated with Chadha, a case was registered against Amritsar resident Rajesh Kumar for escaping with the amount, SHO Sri Hargobindpur Gurbhinder Singh said. ...
10:12 PM, Dec 31, 2012
A liquor factory of slain and controversial industrialist Ponty Chadha was on Friday sealed by Punjab Pollution Control Board here and a case was also registered against its management for violating norms. The board took action as the factory was violating pollution control norms, officials said in Gurdaspur. ...
12:37 AM, Dec 29, 2012
The judicial custody of sacked Uttarakhand minority panel chief SS Namdhari and nine others including his PSO Sachin Tyagi, arrested for their alleged roles in the Ponty Chadha shootout case, was today extended till January 10 by a Delhi court. Metropolitan Magistrate Sandeep Garg has extended the judicial custody of Namdhari by 14 days, his Personal Security Officer (PSO) Tyagi, his aides Simranjeet Singh and Jagbir Singh and six others...
06:08 PM, Dec 27, 2012
The judicial custody of sacked Uttarakhand minority panel chief SS Namdhari and his PSO Sachin Tyagi, who were arrested for their alleged roles in the Ponty Chadha shootout case, ends on Thursday. ...
06:33 AM, Dec 27, 2012
New Delhi: Sacked Uttarakhand minority panel chief SS Namdhari and his PSO Sachin Tyagi, arrested for their alleged roles in the Ponty Chadha shootout case, were on Friday remanded in judicial custody for six days by a Delhi court. Metropolitan Magistrate Rajinder Singh sent Namdhari and his Personal Security Officer Tyagi to jail till December 13, after the police said it does not need their further custody for interrogation. "Accused...
06:28 PM, Dec 07, 2012
New Delhi: The police custody of sacked Uttarakhand minority panel chief Sukhdev Singh Namdhari, booked on charges of murder in slain liquor baron Ponty Chadha shootout case, was extended today by a Delhi court till December 7. Metropolitan Magistrate Rajinder Singh extended Namdhari's police custody by two more days saying he is required to be interrogated for recovery of the alleged weapon and vehicle used in the crime. "In the...
06:32 PM, Dec 05, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi police on Tuesday claimed before a court here that sacked Uttarakhand minority commission chairman SS Namdhari's PSO Sachin Tyagi allegedly conspired with him and Ponty Chadha to kill the liquor baron's brother Hardeep. "He (Tyagi) himself disclosed that he was actively involved in the conspiracy of trespass and he along with Namdhari fired shots at Hardeep in furtherance of conspiracy made earlier with Namdhari and Ponty Chadha,"...
10:14 PM, Dec 04, 2012
