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Court rejects Kanda's plea for staying proceedings

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Press Trust of India New Delhi

Kanda, who along with his employee Aruna Chaddha are accused of abetting the suicide, pleaded that the proceedings be stayed till the sessions court decides his plea for supplying the documents relied upon by the police against him.

Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau, however, rejected his plea for staying the proceedings and listed his revision petition for tomorrow.

"I have considered the said request (stay on proceedings) and I find no ground to intervene and clarify that pendency of this revision petition before this court shall not in any manner come in the way of proceedings before the competent court which shall proceed with the same in accordance with the law," ASJ Lau said.

 

Kanda, who is in judicial custody, had approached the sessions court against the order of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) who had dismissed his plea for mirror images of electronic data and documents relied upon by the prosecution.

The ACMM had dismissed Kanda's plea saying the police has already undertaken to supply it to them, as and when received from Forensic Science Laboratory.

Both Kanda and and her aide Aruna Chaddha are accused of abetting Geetika's suicide. She was found dead at her Ashok Vihar residence in Delhi on August 5.

In her August 4 suicide note, Geetika had said she was ending her life due to "harassment" by Kanda and Chaddha. (More)

  

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First Published: Dec 05 2012 | 8:25 PM IST

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