Kanda's supporters misbehave with journos in Sirsa

Even as Gopal Goyal Kanda evaded arrest for the third day on Friday and his brother Govind Kanda said the former Haryana minister would surrender soon, the supporters of the Sirsa legislator misbehaved with mediapersons from Delhi who were taking pictures of his palatial residence in Rania.

Even as Gopal Goyal Kanda evaded arrest for the third day on Friday and his brother Govind Kanda said the former Haryana minister would surrender soon, the supporters of the Sirsa legislator misbehaved with mediapersons from Delhi who were taking pictures of his palatial residence in Rania.

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The matter was sorted out after local journalists reached the spot and intervened. The Indian National Lok Dal, meanwhile, called for a bandh in Sirsa city, Kalanwali, Dabwali and Ellenabad towns on Saturday to condemn the Sirsa MLA's connection in the case.

"An ex-minister of Haryana government, Gopal Kanda, has created such circumstances for a 23-year-old girl named Geetika Sharma of New Delhi, who used to be an employee at his MDLR company that she had to end her life," Padam Chand Jain, district president of INLD said.