{"id":46293,"date":"2023-07-25T11:38:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T06:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/?p=46293"},"modified":"2023-07-25T11:38:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T06:08:04","slug":"bjp-mla-gopal-kanda-from-haryanas-sirsa-acquitted-in-geetika-sharma-suicide-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/bjp-mla-gopal-kanda-from-haryanas-sirsa-acquitted-in-geetika-sharma-suicide-case\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP MLA Gopal Kanda from Haryana’s Sirsa acquitted in Geetika Sharma suicide case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Geetika Sharma, 23, died by suicide in Aug, 2012<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Sirsa, July 25<\/strong><\/p>\n

Delhi court acquits former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda in case of abetment of suicide of former air hostess Geetika Sharma.\u00a0Gopal Kanda is\u00a0BJP MLA\u00a0from Haryana\u2019s Sirsa.<\/p>\n

Special Judge Vikas Dhull also acquitted co-accused Aruna Chadha in the case, saying the prosecution failed to prove the charges beyond all reasonable doubts.<\/p>\n

The accused were facing charges under various sections, including 306 (abetment of suicide), 506 (criminal intimidation), 201 (destruction of evidence), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 466 (forgery).<\/p>\n

The trial court had also framed charges of rape (376) and 377 (unnatural sex) against Kanda.<\/p>\n

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The Delhi High Court, however, later quashed the charges under 376 and 377 of the IPC.<\/p>\n

Sharma, who was earlier employed with Kanda’s MLDR airlines, was found dead on August 5, 2012 at her Ashok Vihar residence in North West Delhi.<\/p>\n

In her August 4 suicide note, Sharma had said she was ending her life due to \u201charassment\u201d by Kanda and Chadha.<\/p>\n

Kanda was forced to resign from his post of minister of state for home following the registration of the case.<\/p>\n

The suicide story<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aug 4-5, 2012: Geetika Sharma, 23, commits suicide<\/p>\n

Aug 8: Police arrests Aruna Chadha<\/p>\n

Aug 18: Kanda surrenders<\/p>\n

Aug 25: Court extends his police remand<\/p>\n

Aug 28: Kanda sent to 14-day judicial custody<\/p>\n

Oct 6: Police files chargesheet<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geetika Sharma, 23, died by suicide in Aug, 2012 Sirsa, July 25 Delhi court acquits former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda in case of abetment of suicide of former air hostess Geetika Sharma.\u00a0Gopal Kanda is\u00a0BJP MLA\u00a0from Haryana\u2019s Sirsa. Special Judge Vikas Dhull also acquitted co-accused Aruna Chadha in the case, saying the prosecution failed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9852,14176,1961,16185],"tags":[25569,25559,3820,25556,25561,25560,25567,25570,25558,25566,25568,5830,9599,25571,14400,3546,14835,25562,25563,25564,25565,678,25557],"class_list":["post-46293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-cover-story","category-haryana","category-national","tag-airhostess","tag-aruna-chadha","tag-delhi-news","tag-geetika-sharma","tag-geetika-sharma-suicide","tag-geetika-sharma-suicide-case","tag-geetika-suicide-case-update","tag-gopal","tag-gopal-kanda","tag-gopal-kanda-news","tag-gopal-kanda-on-geetika-suicide-case","tag-haryana","tag-hindi-news","tag-kanda","tag-latest-hindi-news","tag-latest-news","tag-minister","tag-rouse-avenue-court","tag-rouse-avenue-court-news","tag-rouse-avenue-court-on-geetika-sharma","tag-rouse-avenue-court-on-geetika-sharma-suicide","tag-suicide","tag-suicide-case"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46295,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46293\/revisions\/46295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}