Geetika Sharma suicide: Gopal Kanda’s statement contradicts what Chadha said: Police

Former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda's statements completely contradicts those of Aruna Chadha, his co-accused in the Geetika Sharma suicide case. This was revealed through documents submitted by the police in a court on Tuesday.

The police have only a day to interrogate Kanda, and till now they have not been able to gather evidence regarding what provoked Geetika to commit suicide.

With the court refusing police custody of Chadha, who is in judicial custody, it's difficult for the police to probe the sequence of events. Kanda's seven-day police custody ends on Friday and he will be produced before ACMM, Rohini, on Saturday.

The police submitted remand papers at the court on August 21. A report filed by the investigating officer revealed that MDLR HR executive Shiv Roop Singh was hired by Chadha and Kanda to keep a tab on Geetika. The report submitted to the court reads, "It is submitted that Chan Shiv Roop Singh was employed to investigate the matter of Geetika Sharma for Emirates on the basis of forged documents and the mail which was sent to Geetika by Shiv Roop Singh was actually forwarded to him by Aruna Chadha of MDLR." The police have added section 66 A of the IT Act in the FIR filed at Bharat Nagar police station. Shiv Roop is being treated as a suspect, according to DCP (North West) P Karunakaran. Till Thursday evening, he was being questioned at Ashok Vihar police station. "He was hired to keep a tab on Geetika. He was instrumental in getting forged papers prepared and sending the mail. He knew that he was forwarding a forged mail to Emirates, still he committed the crime. We are trying to verify his role in destroying evidence.

Hard disks from the HR department and computers of Chadha and Kanda were missing from the MDLR office," said a police official.

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