More trouble awaits Kanda
22 Aug 2012 7:36 AM IST
Fresh trouble brewed for former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda, arrested in the suicide case of his former employee, on Tuesday with Delhi police slapping sections of Information Technology Act against him for allegedly sending false electronic message leading to harassment of the deceased.
Dharmendra Kumar, Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order), said police have invoked Section 66(A), sending information that is grossly offensive or has menacing character or false or to deceive or to mislead, against Kanda.
‘We have invoked this Section as the accused through electronic message, forged details and sent it,’ Kumar told reporters without elaborating.
Geetika had allegedly committed suicide on 5 August in her Ashok Vihar residence and in her suicide note had pointed fingers at Kanda, her former employer at now-defunct MDLR airline and Aruna Chaddha. The deceased and her family alleged that Kanda was pressurising Geetika to rejoin his firm after she left the job.
The family had also alleged that Kanda had sent an email to Emirates Airline where Geetika was working after leaving MDLR airline claiming that she was involved in a cheating case. It was also alleged that a forged look out notice in the name of Geetika was also emailed to Emirates. Kanda and Chaddha had earlier denied allegations.
After raiding the premises of Kanda, Kumar said, investigators had seized hard disks and relevant documents.
Asked whether police would go for brainmapping as Kanda was not opening up, Kumar said they have collected a lot of evidence against Kanda.
On whether the delay in Kanda’s arrest led to destruction of evidences, Kumar said that was not the case.
‘If we had arrested him on day one, he would have got bail on the ground of lack of evidence.
Then you (media) would have hounded us. We collected evidences and arrested him,’ he said.
Kanda had on Saturday morning surrendered before police after evading arrest for 10 days.
Sharma, a former employee of his now defunct MDLR airline, accused him and another senior colleague Aruna Chaddha of harassing her.
Police sources said Kanda has been evasive during questioning and denied any involvement with 23-year-old Sharma.
The police team seized computers and documents from Gurgaon office of Kanda, who was sent to seven-day police custody by a local court on Saturday. The team stayed there for three hours and later took Kanda to his Civil Lines residence for further probe in the matter.
The sources had said they were looking for hard disks of some computers which may help in further investigations.
Meanwhile, a Delhi court on Tuesday rejected a fresh application by the police seeking the custody of Aruna Chaddha, an accused in former flight attendant Geetika Sharma’s suicide case.
Chaddha will remain in judicial custody. Metropolitan Magistrate Devender Kumar Jangala rejected the police plea for the second time in two days. Police told the court that Chaddha was misleading the investigators. She claimed that she joined Kanda’s group in 2006 but documents showed that she was appointed in 2004 as general manager, police said.
Police told the court that a warrant purportedly issued in Dubai was sent to Geetika through an email identity created by Shivroop. It was forwarded by Chaddha.
HOW DID MEDIA GET POST-MORTEM REPORT, ASKS NCW
Questioning how Geetika Sharma’s post-mortem report was leaked to media, the National Commission for Women on Tuesday said the ‘delay’ in police action in the case proved that she was exploited and demanded speedy justice for her family.
‘I had visited Geetika’s family. It is clear that she was exploited and was forced to commit suicide. And there was delayed action in the case which shows that she was exploited,’ NCW Chairperson Mamata Sharma said while replying to queries on police failure to arrest former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda, who is charged with abetting suicide of Geetika, for nearly 10 days. She questioned how the media got access to the postmortem report ‘when we or the Ministry didn’t receive it’. ‘The most unfortunate thing in this case is the postmortem report, which we had asked for and was not given to us by the police,’ Sharma said, adding police should conduct proper investigation following surrender of Kanda and the culprits must be punished. Geetika, 23, was a former employee of Kanda’s now defunct MDLR airlines. She had committed suicide and accused him and another senior colleague Aruna Chaddha of harassing her. Kanda was a minister in Haryana till Geetika named him in her suicide note. He went underground and remained untraced before surrendering at a police station in Delhi on the weekend.
Dharmendra Kumar, Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order), said police have invoked Section 66(A), sending information that is grossly offensive or has menacing character or false or to deceive or to mislead, against Kanda.
‘We have invoked this Section as the accused through electronic message, forged details and sent it,’ Kumar told reporters without elaborating.
Geetika had allegedly committed suicide on 5 August in her Ashok Vihar residence and in her suicide note had pointed fingers at Kanda, her former employer at now-defunct MDLR airline and Aruna Chaddha. The deceased and her family alleged that Kanda was pressurising Geetika to rejoin his firm after she left the job.
The family had also alleged that Kanda had sent an email to Emirates Airline where Geetika was working after leaving MDLR airline claiming that she was involved in a cheating case. It was also alleged that a forged look out notice in the name of Geetika was also emailed to Emirates. Kanda and Chaddha had earlier denied allegations.
After raiding the premises of Kanda, Kumar said, investigators had seized hard disks and relevant documents.
Asked whether police would go for brainmapping as Kanda was not opening up, Kumar said they have collected a lot of evidence against Kanda.
On whether the delay in Kanda’s arrest led to destruction of evidences, Kumar said that was not the case.
‘If we had arrested him on day one, he would have got bail on the ground of lack of evidence.
Then you (media) would have hounded us. We collected evidences and arrested him,’ he said.
Kanda had on Saturday morning surrendered before police after evading arrest for 10 days.
Sharma, a former employee of his now defunct MDLR airline, accused him and another senior colleague Aruna Chaddha of harassing her.
Police sources said Kanda has been evasive during questioning and denied any involvement with 23-year-old Sharma.
The police team seized computers and documents from Gurgaon office of Kanda, who was sent to seven-day police custody by a local court on Saturday. The team stayed there for three hours and later took Kanda to his Civil Lines residence for further probe in the matter.
The sources had said they were looking for hard disks of some computers which may help in further investigations.
Meanwhile, a Delhi court on Tuesday rejected a fresh application by the police seeking the custody of Aruna Chaddha, an accused in former flight attendant Geetika Sharma’s suicide case.
Chaddha will remain in judicial custody. Metropolitan Magistrate Devender Kumar Jangala rejected the police plea for the second time in two days. Police told the court that Chaddha was misleading the investigators. She claimed that she joined Kanda’s group in 2006 but documents showed that she was appointed in 2004 as general manager, police said.
Police told the court that a warrant purportedly issued in Dubai was sent to Geetika through an email identity created by Shivroop. It was forwarded by Chaddha.
HOW DID MEDIA GET POST-MORTEM REPORT, ASKS NCW
Questioning how Geetika Sharma’s post-mortem report was leaked to media, the National Commission for Women on Tuesday said the ‘delay’ in police action in the case proved that she was exploited and demanded speedy justice for her family.
‘I had visited Geetika’s family. It is clear that she was exploited and was forced to commit suicide. And there was delayed action in the case which shows that she was exploited,’ NCW Chairperson Mamata Sharma said while replying to queries on police failure to arrest former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda, who is charged with abetting suicide of Geetika, for nearly 10 days. She questioned how the media got access to the postmortem report ‘when we or the Ministry didn’t receive it’. ‘The most unfortunate thing in this case is the postmortem report, which we had asked for and was not given to us by the police,’ Sharma said, adding police should conduct proper investigation following surrender of Kanda and the culprits must be punished. Geetika, 23, was a former employee of Kanda’s now defunct MDLR airlines. She had committed suicide and accused him and another senior colleague Aruna Chaddha of harassing her. Kanda was a minister in Haryana till Geetika named him in her suicide note. He went underground and remained untraced before surrendering at a police station in Delhi on the weekend.
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