Kanda sent back to jail
5 Oct 2013 5:47 AM IST
Former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda, accused of abetting the suicide of a former air-hostess, on Friday returned to jail after a Delhi court refused to extend his interim bail.
Additional sessions judge MC Gupta declined to extend the interim bail earlier given till 4 October to Kanda, who has been in custody for the past 13 months.
The court will hear Kanda’s plea for a regular bail on 10 October. Kanda, who represents Sirsa in the Haryana assembly, had been given interim bail for a month to attend the house.
His co-accused and employee, Aruna Chaddha, is also out on interim bail till 15 November.
Delhi police had moved the Delhi high court for quashing of the trial court’s order granting them interim bail. Kanda and Chaddha are accused of abetting the suicide of a 23-year-old former air hostess in his now-defunct airlines. The two have denied the allegations.
The suicide note of the victim, who ended her life on the night of 4-5 August, 2012 at her house in Delhi, accused Kanda and Chaddha of harassing her.
Kanda has been charged with rape, abetment to rape and suicide, criminal conspiracy and forgery and under the IT Act for hacking computers and sending offensive or false messages.
Kanda surrendered before Delhi Police on 18 August, 2012 while Chaddha was arrested on 8 August last year. The Delhi high court on Friday also agreed to examine the issue that despite this court’s ruling not to grant bail to any accused to attend assembly or parliament session, the trial court had allowed former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda in former airhostess Geetika Sharma suicide case.
Additional sessions judge MC Gupta declined to extend the interim bail earlier given till 4 October to Kanda, who has been in custody for the past 13 months.
The court will hear Kanda’s plea for a regular bail on 10 October. Kanda, who represents Sirsa in the Haryana assembly, had been given interim bail for a month to attend the house.
His co-accused and employee, Aruna Chaddha, is also out on interim bail till 15 November.
Delhi police had moved the Delhi high court for quashing of the trial court’s order granting them interim bail. Kanda and Chaddha are accused of abetting the suicide of a 23-year-old former air hostess in his now-defunct airlines. The two have denied the allegations.
The suicide note of the victim, who ended her life on the night of 4-5 August, 2012 at her house in Delhi, accused Kanda and Chaddha of harassing her.
Kanda has been charged with rape, abetment to rape and suicide, criminal conspiracy and forgery and under the IT Act for hacking computers and sending offensive or false messages.
Kanda surrendered before Delhi Police on 18 August, 2012 while Chaddha was arrested on 8 August last year. The Delhi high court on Friday also agreed to examine the issue that despite this court’s ruling not to grant bail to any accused to attend assembly or parliament session, the trial court had allowed former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda in former airhostess Geetika Sharma suicide case.
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