THIRTY-EIGHT-year-old Reshi Pasha of 10 Old Road, La Grange, West Bank Demerara is furious that he is unable to earn a living because Sparendaam police refuse to release his vehicle which they have impounded after detaining him for 72 hours.In an interview with this newspaper, the father of two related that police had arrested him last Friday while he was working his taxi in Kitty and was in the process of picking up one of his regular customers.

Pasha said that after the police had bolted into him and his customer, they searched his customer’s apartment before questioning them at the Sparendaam Police Station in relation to the kidnapping and subsequent murder of businessman Rajendra Singh. He had to spend that night at the Turkeyen Police Station lockups.

He told this publication that he did not know of the businessman’s misfortune, had never previously met the businessman, and knows no one who is familiar with the businessman.

After being questioned by the police, Pasha said, he was locked up; but he recalled being threatened by the ranks that he would be shocked to speak, or they would kill him if he did not say what he knew about the kidnapping of the businessman.

After his release, he said, the police have been reluctant to return him the vehicle he had been using, which does not belong to him. He said he only works taxi with the vehicle.

Contacted yesterday, a source at the police station related that the vehicle cannot be released because the file is still with the DPP’s Chambers for advice. The source related that the man was released because his 72-hour detention period had expired; but release of his vehicle would be decided upon only on advice from the DPP.

The men who are charged with the kidnapping and killing of businessman Rajendra Singh were to appear in court yesterday, but were a no-show. This publication was informed that the file was still at the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions, and was not returned to the police in time for the matter to be filed for court yesterday.

It is expected that, during the course of today, the matter would be called in the Magistrates Courts.
Written By Leroy Smith