While the former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda moved the Delhi high court on Monday for an anticipatory bail in the suicide case of his former employee Geetika Sharma, his close aide Aruna Chadha has revealed oppressive contract clauses in Sharma's appointment letter. Chadha told the Delhi Police during interrogation on Sunday that Sharma's appointment letter had a clause according to which she was required to meet Kanda everyday after work hours. That Kanda chose to formalise such a condition can have a bearing in this case.
The 23-year-old Sharma was hired as a director in Kanda's MDLR Airlines in 2011 at a monthly salary of Rs 60,000.
However, Kanda's bail plea stated that Sharma was hypersensitive in nature. 'Geetika's act of suicide was not the handy work of a sound mind, but that of a confused and frustrated individual,' Kanda said in the anticipatory bail plea in the high court.
The senior advocate K T S Tulsi, appearing for Kanda, took the matter before a division bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Vipin Sanghi. Kanda's anticipatory bail plea was dismissed on 9 August by a sessions court that said allegations against him were grave and serious in nature and that his application was without merit.
The former Haryana minister said that suicide notes were inadmissible as evidence under Section 10 of the Indian Evidence Act. The plea submitted that Kanda has no intention of delaying the matter. 'He is a respectable citizen and having substantial property in Gurgaon. There is no likelihood of the petitioner absconding or delaying the trial of the case. He is willing and undertakes to abide with all conditions imposed by the high court while granting bail. He is ready to join investigation as and when required by the investigating agency,' said the application.
The 23-year-old Sharma was hired as a director in Kanda's MDLR Airlines in 2011 at a monthly salary of Rs 60,000.
However, Kanda's bail plea stated that Sharma was hypersensitive in nature. 'Geetika's act of suicide was not the handy work of a sound mind, but that of a confused and frustrated individual,' Kanda said in the anticipatory bail plea in the high court.
The senior advocate K T S Tulsi, appearing for Kanda, took the matter before a division bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Vipin Sanghi. Kanda's anticipatory bail plea was dismissed on 9 August by a sessions court that said allegations against him were grave and serious in nature and that his application was without merit.
The former Haryana minister said that suicide notes were inadmissible as evidence under Section 10 of the Indian Evidence Act. The plea submitted that Kanda has no intention of delaying the matter. 'He is a respectable citizen and having substantial property in Gurgaon. There is no likelihood of the petitioner absconding or delaying the trial of the case. He is willing and undertakes to abide with all conditions imposed by the high court while granting bail. He is ready to join investigation as and when required by the investigating agency,' said the application.