Kanda sent to 7 days police custody

New Delhi - Former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda, a key accused in the Geetika Sharma suicide case, was on Saturday remanded by a Delhi court to 7-day police custody.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate D K Jangala remanded Kanda to police custody after the Delhi police said they need his sustained custodial interrogation to recover various documents and some hard drives which were missing from the MDLR Group's office and they also need to confront him with other documents which they have recovered till now.

During the hearing the police sought 14-days remand of Kanda saying that he is the sole source through whom they can collect all the documents and key evidence relating to the case.

Kanda, who was arrested in the wee hours today after being on the run for the past 10 days, was produced in the court room which was packed to capacity. Many of his supporters were stopped from entering the court with police personnel bolting the door from inside.

 
Kanda's employee, Aruna Chaddha, a senior functionary with now defunct MDLR airlines, has already been arrested and is in judicial custody in connection with the suicide of 23-year-old air hostess Geetika Sharma, who allegedly took her life on August 5 at her Ashok Vihar residence.

In her suicide note, Geetika had alleged that Kanda and Chaddha were harassing her to rejoin the former minister's firm after she left the job. Both Kanda and Chaddha have denied the allegation.