New Delhi/Gurgaon,Aug 20
The plans of Delhi Police to confront former Haryana Minister Gopal Goyal Kanda with his aide Aruna Chadha failed to fructify today with a Delhi court rejecting a plea seeking her custody even as investigators continued to collect evidence in the Geetika Sharma suicide case.

While rejecting a police plea for custody of Aruna Chadha, a district court at Rohini asked the police to file a fresh application tomorrow while continuing her judicial custody for a day.

The Delhi Police had sought three-day custody of Chadha stating they wanted to confront her with the former minister as they have made contradictory statements to investigators.

They also wanted to ask Chadha about the fresh evidence collected by its probe teams. Chadha, an employee of the now defunct MDLR Airlines, was in constant touch with Geetika.

The police maintained that Kanda was not cooperating with the investigators. North-West district chief P Karunakarn has not ruled out the possibility of subjecting the former minister to brain-mapping. 

The present focus was to take him to places where police feels it can collect evidence to build a case.

Meanwhile, a day after taking him to the MDLR office, a Delhi police team took Gopal Kanda to his Gawal Pahadi farmhouse in Gurgaon. While officers refused to share details, farmhouse staff claimed that police seized several property documents which carried Geetika’s name.

According to sources, Geetika was a frequent visitor to farmhouse and it was the place where she was allegedly forced to report to Kanda every evening at the end of duty hours. Interrogation of Aruna Chadha also revealed that Geetika celebrated her birthday here and even her parents were well-acquainted with the place.

“If the MDLR office holds clues to their relationship, it’s the farmhouse where we hope to find the personal equation of Kanda with Geetika. Though he has been insisting that her visits to this place had only been official, but we have brought him here after his interrogation to search for witnesses and clues to probe allegations of personal harassment. We also suspect place to be a hideout for all major evidences pertaining to the case,” one of the police officials accompanying Kanda said.

The officials remained with Kanda in farmhouse for about an hour and quizzed one or two employees primarily about the frequency or nature of Geetika’s visits.