…Judge will hand over case to jury for consideration and verdict

JUSTICE Diana Insanally who presided at the Mon Repos murder trial where the jury heard a story about a man who died mysteriously following a rum spree will explain the law to the jury tomorrow.Thereafter, she will hand over the case to them, the judges of the facts, for their consideration and verdict in relation to the accused Chanderban Indar.
Indar’s story was that Ragendra Singh who participated in an all-day rum spree with him, slept at his home that night and was found dead the next morning.
Police investigations that followed resulted in Indar being charged with the murder of his dead friend Ragendra Singh.
Indar said to the police in a statement:
“On 31st of May, 2010, Ragendra Singh visited me and we were drinking non-stop. Singh did not go home that night.
“The next morning I found his body motionless. I threw a bucket of water on him before calling in the police.”
Indar who was later charged with the murder of his friend told the police that he did not see any bloodstains around nor did he see any marks of violence on Singh’s body.
But another friend who visited the home told a different story – he said that he saw what appeared to be bloodstains on the floor and blood oozing from the deceased’s mouth and nose.
Attorney-at-Law, Mr. George Thomas who defended alluded to discrepancies in the evidence and declared that there was doubt as to what caused death – whether it was manual strangulation as opined by the doctor through scratches around the neck.
There was no eyewitness in the case, which, according to the Prosecutrix, Miss Dhanika Singh was built on circumstantial evidence.
But she urged the jury to return a verdict in keeping with the evidence and the oath they had taken.
The trial ends tomorrow Thursday November 21st.

(By George Barclay)