Geetika suicide: Court notice on Chaddha's plea
New Delhi, May 22: The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to police on a plea of Haryana's former minister Gopal Goyal Kanda's employee Aruna Chaddha against the framing of fresh charge of abetment of rape against her in the Geetika suicide case.
Justice G.P. Mittal also summoned trial court records, thereby suspending the proceedings before the trial judge till May 30. The trial court had framed charges of abetting rape and suicide of Geetika against Chaddha.
Chaddha
and
Kanda
have
been
charged
with
rape,
abetment
of
rape,
abetment
of
suicide,
criminal
conspiracy,
forgery
under
the
Indian
Penal
Code
and
Information
Technology
Act
for
hacking
computers
and
sending
offensive
or
false
messages.
Geetika, 23, a former flight attendant in Kanda's now-defunct MDLR Airlines, was found hanging from the ceiling of a room at her Ashok Vihar house in north Delhi Aug 5 last year.
She left behind two suicide notes blaming Kanda and Chaddha for ruining her life. Both are now in judicial custody and have denied any involvement in the suicide.
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