NEW DELHI: As former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda continued to evade police for the ninth straight day on Monday, investigators raised sharp questions about his role in his former employee Geetika Sharma’s suicide, citing an unusual clause in her service contract.

Sources said Geetika may have been exploited by Kanda — main accused in the suicide case — and his associates in ‘every possible way’ with promises of a bright career. Geetika’s appointment letter, they said, required her to report to Kanda, the MDLR Group managing director, ‘every evening’.

On Monday, the public prosecutor told court: “In January 2011, Geetika joined the company as a director without having any shareholding… and one of the service conditions in her appointment letter was that she was to report to the MD everyday in the evening hours.”

Police sources said this might be a pointer to the nature of Geetika’s ‘harassment’, a point she did not explain in her suicide note.

“This may prove that he was utilizing the clause to harass her. Otherwise, he would have had no business to meet Geetika every evening,” said a source. Police have claimed that MDLR Group manager Aruna Chaddha was equally responsible for Geetika’s suicide.

It has also come to light that Geetika — described in Kanda’s anticipatory bail plea as someone “unable to strike a balance between her personal life and work ethics” — was heading two of his companies, Sundale and AKG Infra. “We have recovered the records of MDLR Group’s Sundale Educational Society, of which Geetika was president and Chaddha secretary. In AKG Infrabuild Society, Geetika was appointed vice-president while Chaddha was director. We are trying to find out why Kanda was showering such favours on 23-year-old Geetika,” said a senior police officer.

The two companies, though, were doing practically no business. Geetika’s family claimed she wanted to quit as she felt cheated in these appointments. Police will seek documents pertaining to these companies from the registrar of societies and confront Chaddha and Kanda with them. “We believe Geetika’s laptop has many more shocking details and, as we recover more, we will be able to develop a clearer picture,” the source added.

Police have also written to the ministry of external affairs to ascertain the authenticity of emails, purportedly sent by Dubai authorities and the Consulate General of India, regarding extradition proceedings against Geetika in Dubai.

TOI on Monday accessed the remand paper submitted by police to seek Chaddha’s custody for identifying places where Geetika allegedly underwent abortions. Police have also said the nature of Geetika’s harassment cannot be detailed in an open court keeping in mind the feelings of the victim’s family. Her postmortem report, too, is said to contain some shocking facts.

However, Geetika’s family on Monday told TOI they were not aware of her being harassed physically. “At least in the last two months, my mother used to accompany Geetika from college, which is located on Lodhi Road. My mother works with the finance ministry at Khan Market, so we are sure that she did not meet Kanda in the last two months. The only harassment we know of is threat calls and text messages from Aruna Chaddha and Gopal Kanda,” said Geetika’s brother Ankit.

As Kanda moved Delhi high court for anticipatory bail on Monday, and Chaddha was remanded to three more days of police custody by the Rohini court, police said the MLA was buying time to destroy every piece of evidence — computers and hard disks have been reported missing from the MDLR office.

However, his counsel Kapil Sankhla said the MLA will appear in court on Tuesday and was ready to join investigations if there was no imminent threat of arrest.

A source said police now plan to detain Kanda’s close relatives to build pressure on him to surrender.