Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Geetika suicide: Police, accused told to file written submissions

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the city police and co-accused Aruna Chaddha to file written submissions on the plea of latter seeking quashing of fresh charges, including abetment of rape, against her in the former airhosetess Geetika Sharma suicide case.
"Brief synopsis be filed, indicating the evidence relied upon by both the parties with the respective page numbers, within four weeks. Renotify on July 3," Justice G P Mittal said.
The court had earlier issued the notice to Delhi Police summoning trial court records in the case involving former Haryana Home Minister Gopal Kanda and Chaddha as accused.
Besides the charge of abetment of suicide, the lower court had recently invoked some other harsher penal provisions relating to rape, unnatural sex and their abetment, against Kanda and Chaddha. She had sought dropping of fresh charges.
29/05/13 PTI/ZeeNews
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