New Delhi, September 11
The judicial custody of former Haryana Minister Gopal Goyal Kanda and his aide Aruna Chaddha was today extended for 14 days by a Rohini court in the Geetika Sharma suicide case. The proceedings were conducted through video-conferencing.

Metropolitan Magistrate Bhupinder Singh remanded Kanda and Chaddha in judicial custody till September 25 after the Delhi Police said investigation into the case was still on.

Earlier, Kanda was remanded in 14-day judicial custody on August 28, which ended today. In order to avoid the huge rush that follows whenever Kanda and Aruna are produced in a court, the duo were not brought to the court physically, but they were put on video-conferencing from the Rohini Jail.

The court had earlier allowed the Delhi Police’s plea for conducting proceedings through video-conferencing as, the police said, a huge crowd gathered on the court premises whenever the two accused were produced there. The police had said due to media hype and the crowd of onlookers and supporters of the accused, they did not want to bring them to court physically. In future proceedings also, Kanda and Chaddha would be produced before the judge through video-conferencing.