Court tells cops to file response to Kanda’s bail application
8 Nov 2012 4:32 AM IST
The Delhi high court on Tuesday asked the city police to file its response to the bail application of former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda, an accused in the air hostess Geetika Sharma suicide case.
‘You just file the reply to the bail application. Put up for hearing on November 19,’ Justice Pratibha Rani told Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Siddharth Luthra who attempted to raise certain objections to Kanda’s bail plea.
The hearing on the bail application of Kanda, who is in jail since his arrest on 18 August, was deferred twice on Tuesday forenoon on the ground that the arguing counsel Ramesh Gupta was on his way to the court room.
‘Enough is enough. Your counsel is still on his way to the court. No more pass over can be granted. I am adjourning the matter to some other date,’ Justice Rani said.
During the brief hearing, ASG Luthra, appearing for Delhi Police, said, ‘The accused is seeking bail on the ground that charge sheet had already been filed but he has not annexed the copy of the charge sheet with his petition to be heard by this court. I have got a serious objection to it.’
Earlier, another bench of Justice P K Bhasin had recused itself from hearing the bail plea of Kanda without citing any reason and had asked the registry to place it before some other court.
On 1 November, Kanda had moved the high court against the 20 September order of the trial court, which dismissed his bail plea on the ground that further probe was needed in view of a police report that the victim was pregnant in March this year.
The 23-year-old Geetika was found dead on 5 August at her Ashok Vihar residence in north -west Delhi. In her 4 August suicide note, Geetika said she was ending her life due to ‘harassment’ by Kanda and his aide Aruna Chaddah, co-accused in the case. They, however, denied the charge.
Earlier, Kanda’s anticipatory bail plea had been rejected by the trial court and the Delhi high court, following which he had surrendered before the police on 18 August.
Chaddah is also in jail, after her bail pleas were rejected by the trial court on 7 September and 15 October.
She had sought bail on the ground that she is a single parent and has a seven-year-old daughter and also old parents to look after.
On 6 October, the city police filed a charge sheet before the trial court against Kanda and Chaddah for allegedly being involved in ‘a series of willful and malicious acts of mental torture, threat, blackmail and stress’ against Geetika which led to her suicide.
BROTHER GETS BAIL IN CHEQUE BOUNCE CASE
Kanda’s brother Govind Kanda has been granted bail by a Delhi court in a case lodged against him for evading court appearance in a 14-year-old cheque bounce case. Govind, who was earlier granted interim bail by another court till 31 October on a personal bond of Rs 10,000 with a surety of same amount, was given the relief as his brother Gopal has already been granted bail in the same case. Additional Sessions Judge Neena Bansal Krishna confirmed the interim bail granted to Govind and directed him to join the probe as and when required. ‘...considering that co-accused Gopal Goyal...has already been admitted to bail in similar FIR registered against him as well under section 174-A of the IPC and also considering that applicant/accused (Govind) has already been granted interim bail... the interim bail granted...stands confirmed on the same terms and conditions,’ the court said. The case for evading the court was recently lodged against them by the Delhi police on a court’s direction. Both the brothers were declared proclaimed offenders in the cheque bounce case which they had settled in August this year in an out-of-court agreement.
‘You just file the reply to the bail application. Put up for hearing on November 19,’ Justice Pratibha Rani told Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Siddharth Luthra who attempted to raise certain objections to Kanda’s bail plea.
The hearing on the bail application of Kanda, who is in jail since his arrest on 18 August, was deferred twice on Tuesday forenoon on the ground that the arguing counsel Ramesh Gupta was on his way to the court room.
‘Enough is enough. Your counsel is still on his way to the court. No more pass over can be granted. I am adjourning the matter to some other date,’ Justice Rani said.
During the brief hearing, ASG Luthra, appearing for Delhi Police, said, ‘The accused is seeking bail on the ground that charge sheet had already been filed but he has not annexed the copy of the charge sheet with his petition to be heard by this court. I have got a serious objection to it.’
Earlier, another bench of Justice P K Bhasin had recused itself from hearing the bail plea of Kanda without citing any reason and had asked the registry to place it before some other court.
On 1 November, Kanda had moved the high court against the 20 September order of the trial court, which dismissed his bail plea on the ground that further probe was needed in view of a police report that the victim was pregnant in March this year.
The 23-year-old Geetika was found dead on 5 August at her Ashok Vihar residence in north -west Delhi. In her 4 August suicide note, Geetika said she was ending her life due to ‘harassment’ by Kanda and his aide Aruna Chaddah, co-accused in the case. They, however, denied the charge.
Earlier, Kanda’s anticipatory bail plea had been rejected by the trial court and the Delhi high court, following which he had surrendered before the police on 18 August.
Chaddah is also in jail, after her bail pleas were rejected by the trial court on 7 September and 15 October.
She had sought bail on the ground that she is a single parent and has a seven-year-old daughter and also old parents to look after.
On 6 October, the city police filed a charge sheet before the trial court against Kanda and Chaddah for allegedly being involved in ‘a series of willful and malicious acts of mental torture, threat, blackmail and stress’ against Geetika which led to her suicide.
BROTHER GETS BAIL IN CHEQUE BOUNCE CASE
Kanda’s brother Govind Kanda has been granted bail by a Delhi court in a case lodged against him for evading court appearance in a 14-year-old cheque bounce case. Govind, who was earlier granted interim bail by another court till 31 October on a personal bond of Rs 10,000 with a surety of same amount, was given the relief as his brother Gopal has already been granted bail in the same case. Additional Sessions Judge Neena Bansal Krishna confirmed the interim bail granted to Govind and directed him to join the probe as and when required. ‘...considering that co-accused Gopal Goyal...has already been admitted to bail in similar FIR registered against him as well under section 174-A of the IPC and also considering that applicant/accused (Govind) has already been granted interim bail... the interim bail granted...stands confirmed on the same terms and conditions,’ the court said. The case for evading the court was recently lodged against them by the Delhi police on a court’s direction. Both the brothers were declared proclaimed offenders in the cheque bounce case which they had settled in August this year in an out-of-court agreement.
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