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Haryana minister Gopal Kanda booked for abetting suicide, resigns
Sunday August 05, 2012 11:07:06 PM,
IANS
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Chandigarh/New
Delhi: Haryana's controversial Minister of State for Home Gopal Kanda,
blamed by a former flight attendant for driving her to suicide,
submitted his resignation to Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda
in New Delhi Sunday evening.
The resignation came just hours after Kanda was booked for
abetment to suicide by the Delhi Police after a former flight
attendant, Geetika Sharma, committed suicide in New Delhi Sunday.
She had, in her suicide note, accused him of harassing her which
led to her suicide.
"I have submitted my resignation to the chief minister today
evening after he returned from Kolkata. I was waiting for him (Hooda)
to return to submit my resignation," Kanda told reporters in
Gurgaon, near New Delhi.
"I will come out clean in this. There is nothing against me. I
have submitted my resignation so that there is no interference in
this matter. The law will take its own course," Kanda said.
"The thing she did today...... she was intelligent, cannot say how
this happened. Everything will come out in the investigation. I am
not named in her note. I was not in touch with any employee. I
have no direct relation with anyone (employees). You will come to
know. What has happened is wrong," Kanda maintained.
The body of Geetika Sharma, 23, was found hanging in her Ashok
Vihar house in north Delhi Sunday morning. She earlier worked in
Kanda's now-defunct MDLR Airlines.
In her suicide note, the victim blamed Kanda for breaking her
trust, police said, adding that a case of abetment to suicide had
been registered against him.
Kanda owned the MDLR Airlines where Sharma worked as a flight
attendant. After the airline ceased to function in 2009, Sharma
was given a job in another company owned by Kanda.
According to the victim's brother, Gaurav Sharma, his sister was
constantly being mentally harassed by Kanda and his colleague
Aruna Chadha.
"My sister quit her job and decided to work with Emirates and had
gone for training in Dubai but Kanda wrote to them accusing my
sister of having a bad character which led to her termination," he
told reporters.
She was being asked by Kanda to join his company again, added
Sharma.
Union Women and Child Welfare Minister Krishna Tirath hinted at a
National Commission for Women probe into the matter and Hooda
assured "appropriate action".
Tirath told reporters: "We will send this case to the National
Commission for Women for investigation. I will write a letter to
the chief minister of Haryana."
Hooda earlier in the day said that "appropriate action" would be
taken in the case.
Kanda, who began his career as a slipper (chappal) seller and
later became a multi-millionaire property dealer, later floated
the MDLR airline in 2007. He was elected as an Independent
legislator from Sirsa seat in the October 2009 assembly poll in
Haryana and joined the Congress-led government headed by Hooda.
He was made minister of state for home by Hooda despite having
been named in police cases earlier.
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