Gopal Goyal Kanda, a former minister for Haryana, was cleared on Tuesday by Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court of any wrongdoing in the suicide death of air hostess Geetika Sharma. The former minister was detained in 2012 after a Delhi court ordered him to stand trial in connection with the Geetika Sharma case on charges of rape and aiding suicide. Sharma worked for MDLR Airlines, which Kanda named after his father Murli Dhar Lakh Ram. In her suicide note, she accused Sharma of harassing her.
Geetika was found dead on August 5, 2012, at her Ashok Vihar residence in North-West Delhi.
Further details awaited.