HC asks cops to respond to Aruna Chadha’s plea

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday summoned the trial court records and asked the city police to respond to a plea of co-accused Aruna Chadha seeking quashing of fresh charges, including abetment of rape, against her in former airhosetess Geetika Sharma’s suicide case. Besides the charge of abetment of suicide, the lower court had recently invoked some other harsher penal provisions relating to rape, unnatural sex and their abetment, against former Haryana minister Kanda and Chadha. Justice G P Mittal issued a notice to Delhi police and summoned the judicial records. 'Issue notice. The trial court records are being summoned. Fix it for hearing on 29 May,' the court said.