Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Geetika Sharma suicide case: Another MDLR employee charged

New Delhi: The Delhi police have charged another MDLR employee under the IT act for forging a letter making false allegations against Geetika Sharma and threatening to extradite her to Dubai.

A case has been filed case against Chand Shivrup, the assistant HR manager with MDLR for sending the forged letter from Dubai to Geetika threatening extradition for not returning Rs. 50,000.

The police has also slapped fresh charges against former the Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda who is accused of abetting the suicide of his former employee Geetika Sharma.

"We have invoked section 66 (A) under IT (Information Technology) Act as the accused forged details and sent them through electronic messages," Special Commissioner Dharmendra Kumar said.

Geetika, 23, a former flight attendant of the now defunct MDLR Airlines owned by Mr Kanda, had accused him and his employee Aruna Chaddha of harassing her and forcing her to commit suicide.

She died on the night of Aug 4-5 at her house in Delhi's Ashok Vihar area. Mr Kanda and Ms Chaddha have denied the allegations.


(With inputs from agencies)