Sonepat: There were dramatic scenes of protests in Sonepat as residents went on a rampage burning tyres and vehicles, protesting against an accident that killed a woman. The woman's family members claim that a truck hit her and was trying to flee when the violence broke out. Residents also claim that the police are yet to order an inquiry. No further violence has been reported, but the area remained tense....
09:46 AM, Sep 12, 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
Chandigarh: In a major setback to Bollywood producer and director Subhash Ghai, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday ordered quashing of allotment of 20 acres of village common land in Haryana to him for for his production company Mukta Arts. The court has further ordered that the land be handed back to villagers. Earlier in May 2012 the Punjab and Haryana High Court had stayed the execution of...
01:51 PM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: The viscera report of Fiza alias Anuradha Bali, the ex-wife of former Haryana deputy Chief Minister Chander Mohan, has found traces of poison in her body. The doctors say that the poison is suspected to be rat poison, that mainly consists of aluminium phosphate. Fiza's body was found in a highly-decomposed state in her apartment in Chandigarh on August 6. While initial reports claimed it to be a...
03:09 PM, Sep 08, 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
Gurgaon: A protest at a private engineering college near Gurgaon over the death of a girl student turned violent on Thursday, with the agitators smashing window panes of vehicles and setting afire a college bus. The students, who had gathered for a condolence meet to mourn the death of the 19-year-old student, went on rampage alleging negligence on behalf of the college for the death of girl who died after...
11:48 PM, Sep 06, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI has recommended registration of corruption case against former Haryana Chief Minister Om Parkash Chautala for alleged irregularities in selection of candidates to the state Civil Services Executive Branch in 2003-04, the Supreme Court was on Wednesday informed. A bench headed by Justice Altamas Kabir would examine the report on October 10. In a status report recently submitted before the bench, CBI has also recommended similar proceedings...
12:49 AM, Sep 06, 2012
New Delhi: From Tuesday midnight, commuters may not have to pay the toll charges for the Gurgaon expressway in the national capital. The action comes after the Punjab and Haryana High Court restrained the collection of toll charges from Tuesday onwards. The court acted after observing that toll authorities failed to prevent traffic chaos and free flow of traffic on the expressway. The Division Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Jasbir...
06:36 PM, Sep 04, 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: Aruna Chaddha, an aide of former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda and co-accused in Geetika Sharma suicide case, on Saturday denied her involvement in it and claimed the former airhostesses took the extreme step because she was upset with her parents. Pleading for bail before District Judge and Additional Sessions Judge SK Sarvaria, Chaddha said she be allowed bail as she has a seven-year-old daughter to look after. Senior...
06:32 PM, 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: Delayed but heavy rainfall lashed several parts of northern India over the last 48 hours. The national capital on Tuesday evening was lashed by heavy rains for three hours and overnight rains have led to further water-logging and morning traffic is moving slow. For the second consecutive day, commuters in Delhi had a harrowing time as heavy rains flooded roads, causing traffic snarls, while water also entered several...
08:36 AM, Aug 29, 2012
Chandigarh: It's been a deficient monsoon, but the late rains have wreaked havoc. The roads in Karnal and Panipat are inundated by up to three feet by the incessant rains that have also led to flooding in in low lying houses. Chandigarh resident Harvinder Singh said, "Our children cannot go to school nor can we cook at home. Our houses are under two feet of water." At the judicial courts...
08:06 AM, Aug 29, 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: The Chairman of Japan's Suzuki Motor Corporation, Osamu Suzuki is scheduled to meet Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday. The duo will be discussing the violence that killed a senior executive at the Maruti factory in Manesar last month. A senior executive was killed and around a hundred workers were injured in the incident. ...
10:56 AM, 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: Japan's Suzuki Motor Corporation Chairman Osamu Suzuki will meet Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday. The meeting assumes significance in the backdrop of violence at Maruti Suzuki's Manesar plant last month. Suzuki, who is on a week-long visit to India to attend the annual general meeting of SMC's Indian arm Maruti Suzuki on August 28, is expected to be accompanied by the top management of the...
12:39 AM, Aug 26, 2012
New Delhi: Former Haryana Minister Gopal Goyal Kanda, key accused in the Geetika Sharma suicide case, was on Saturday further remanded to 3-day police custody by a Delhi court after investigators alleged "non-cooperation" and sought to quiz him to recover mobile phones and a missing hard disc. Delhi Police, which sought seven days custody of Kanda for recovering three mobile phones of MDLR employees that he was using, was allowed...
06:51 PM, Aug 25, 2012
