GHANSHAAM Deepnarine, charged with threatening his wife, yesterday appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson and was released on bail.
Deepnarine, 46, of 2 John Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, pleaded not guilty to the charge and was represented by attorney-at-law Mohamed Zafar.
It is alleged that, on last May 1, he made use of threatening language to his wife, Bibi Fareida Deepnarine.
Zafar said his client is a driver with the Ministry of Finance for the past five years and that the problem was caused because his wife is of the opinion that he is having an affair with his cousin.
The virtual complainant told the court that when she got home on the day in question, she met her son at a neighbor who told her that his father was drunk and had put him out of the house.
He said he stopped her from entering the house which caused her to ask a neighbor to talk to him.
The woman said she and her children had to move out of the house and rent a place to live because of the defendant’s abusive attitude.
After they departed from the home, she said several persons told her that they saw the defendant and his cousin on the seawall and at other places in the City. She said she was also reliably informed that the defendant picks up his cousin every day after work.
She claimed that he always goes home drunk with the Ministry’s vehicle and threatens to kill her and the family if she reported the matter.
The woman said she went to the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security and was given a letter to take to the Brickdam Police Station.
Police Inspector Stephen Telford, prosecuting, told the court that the virtual complainant had no alternative but to flee from the home.
After 26 years of marriage, Telford said it was unfortunate that the virtual complainant never knew her husband’s cousin who appeared on the scene all of a sudden.
“She’s my mother sister husband niece, so she’s my second cousin. Sometimes she asks for help to move round,” the defendant told the court.
The Magistrate told the cousin, who was also present in court, that her presence in the Deepnarine’s family is causing problems and asked her to keep away.
A probation report was ordered into the matter and it will come up again on July 9. Meanwhile, Deepnarine was released on $20,000 bail.