Former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda, accused in the suicide case of former air hostess Geetika Shar-ma, surrendered before the Delhi police at 4 am on Saturday after 10 days of the run and after the Delhi high court rejected his ant-icipatory bail plea. He was produced in a local court and remanded in police custody for seven days.
Additional chief metropolitan magistrate D.K. Jangala remanded Mr Kanda in police custody after the Delhi police said it needs to conduct sustained custodial interrogation to recover various documents and some computer hard drives missing from the MDLR Group’s office, and that they also need to confront him with documents recovered till now. The police sought 14 days’ custody but the court granted only seven.
After a dramatic build-up in which his brother was arrested Friday night, Mr Kanda surfaced at Ashok Vihar police station at 4 am Saturday after managing to avoid police personnel deployed across northwest Delhi to arrest him before his surrender following speculation that he might give himself up.
Soon after Mr Kanda emerged from a van with media stickers in front of the police station, some policemen rushed out and took him inside. “Kanda has surrendered and we have arrested him,” deputy commissioner of police (North-West) P. Karunakaran told reporters.