THE Defence Counsel in a drugs case yesterday alleged that a Police Sergeant planted the narcotics on the defendant.

Attorney-at-law Mr. Jerome Khan, for Germaine Harlequin, 36, told Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton the defendant and the policeman had a previous disagreement over money and the latter threatened a reprisal.

Harlequin (no address given) pleaded not guilty to trafficking eight grammes of cocaine on December 29 and being in possession of six grammes cannabis (marijuana) the same day.

Khan, in a bail application, said Harlequin is scheduled to undergo surgery for an illness and submitted it was a special reason for the grant.

Harlequin was granted $35,000 bail on the possession charge and remanded to prison on the other, before the cases were transferred to Wales Court, West Bank Demerara, for January 7.