Like Geetika,Aruna too left MDLR only to return and rise

Aruna has been arrested for alleged abetment to suicide

Until last week,Aruna Chadha,Deputy General Manager of the MDLR Group,moved around in an Audi and a BMW. Now,the 40-year-old is being driven to court in a police Gypsy,a woman constable sitting beside her.

Named in a note,along with MDLR chief Gopal Goyal Kanda,by former air hostess Geetika Sharma who hanged herself at her Delhi home on August 5,Aruna has been arrested for alleged abetment to suicide in the note,Geetika alleged that Kanda and Aruna had been harassing and cheating her.

Suddenly,Aruna finds herself alone,dumped by friends and relatives. Police sources said that since her arrest,only her father and uncle have been meeting her during her court appearances. Other than her father,no one else has so far come to visit her at the Bharat Nagar police station.

A resident of BPTP Freedom Park Life in Sector 57 in Gurgaon,Aruna has told police that she separated from her husband,a commercial airline pilot,several years ago. They have a daughter who is now 11.

Before she joined MDLR,Aruna worked with two private airlines. A graduate from Maitreyi College in Delhi University,she started off as a member of the ground staff for an airline that is now defunct.

Aruna told police officers that she has worked hard to raise her daughter on her own. She has been living with her parents ever since her separation.

Aruna said she did not know Kanda till she joined MDLR. She said she saw an advertisement in a newspaper about MDLR hiring senior crew trainers. She joined as an in-flight instructor and rose to be the Deputy General Manager.

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Police officers who searched the MDLR office said her cabin on the third floor of the building was bigger than anyone elses in the office. Her rise through the ranks in MDLR was phenomenal. Aruna told police that during her six-year stint with MDLR,she left the company twice and returned in August 2010.