Airhostess suicide: Kanda moves court for anticipatory bail
Posted on: 09 Aug 2012
New Delhi: Former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda, embroiled in airhostess Geetika Sharma's suicide case, today moved a court here seeking anticipatory bail. Fearing arrest, Kanda moved a District and Sessions court in Rohini court complex seeking anticipatory bail after his aide Aruna Chadha was arrested by the police. The application will come up for hearing Thursday.
Kanda's counsel, senior advocate Ramesh Gupta, said one of the grounds for seeking anticipatory bail is that the
FIR registered in the case does not disclose the commission of offence under section 306 IPC pertaining to abetment of
suicide.
He also said 'it is only under media pressure that the police are acting in the way they are.'
Geetika Sharma (23), a former air hostess with Kanda's now defunct MDLR airline, alleged in her suicide note that she was
ending her life due to harassment by Kanda and MDLR official Aruna Chaddha. Kanda and Chaddha had denied the allegations.
Geetika was found hanging in her flat in north west Delhi on August 5.
Kanda, an Independent MLA who held Home, Urban Bodies and Industry and Commerce portfolios, resigned the following day.
PTI
