Gopal Kanda moves Delhi High Court for anticipatory bail

New Delhi : Former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda, wanted in connection with the suicide of former flight attendant Geetika Sharma, Monday moved the Delhi High Court seeking an anticipatory bail.

The matter will come up for hearing Tuesday.

Mentioning the matter before a division bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Vipin Sanghi, senior advocate K.T.S. Tulsi appearing for Kanda told the court that the anticipatory bail plea would be filed Monday itself.

He sought the matter to be listed Monday or Tuesday before an appropriate bench.

Kanda’s anticipatory bail plea was dismissed Aug 9 by a sessions court that said allegations against him were grave and serious in nature and that his application was without merit.

Kanda, who owned the MDLR Airlines where the 23-year-old Geetika was earlier employed, was booked for abetment to her suicide and criminal intimidation. He is now untraceable and on the run.

Kanda began his career as a petty businessman and later became a multi-millionaire property dealer. He floated MDLR Airline in 2007.

He was elected to the Haryana assembly as an Independent legislator from Sirsa constituency in the October 2009 polls and joined the Congress-led government headed by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

Kanda was made minister of state for home by Hooda despite having been named in police cases earlier.

Geetika hanged herself in her north Delhi’s Ashok Vihar house Aug 5 and left behind a suicide note, blaming Kanda and Aruna Chaddha, senior executive in Kanda’s group, for her extreme step. Her autopsy report Friday confirmed there was no foul play.