A Delhi court has remanded former Haryana Minister and key accused in the Geetika Sharma suicide case – Gopal Goyal Kanda – to 7-day police custody. He was produced before the court after he surrendered before the Delhi police in the wee hours on Saturday morning. He was later arrested in connection with the suicide of his former employee Geetika Sharma.

Kanda was absconding for the past 10 days after police served him a notice to appear before them to join investigations. He surfaced at Bharat Nagar Police Station at 4 AM. Delhi Police had conducted over 60 searches and raids in Haryana, Goa and Siliguri in West Bengal, besides questioning around 30 people in connection with the case. His brother Govind Kanda was also arrested yesterday for allegedly helping Kanda evade police.

Kanda's employee, Aruna Chaddha, a senior functionary with now defunct MDLR airlines, has already been arrested and is in judicial custody in connection with the suicide of 23-year-old air hostess Geetika Sharma. In her suicide note, Geetika had alleged that Kanda and Chaddha were harassing her to rejoin the former minister's firm after she left the job.