KRISHNADAT Mahadeo, who allegedly set fire to a family property, was yesterday granted bail when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton charged with setting fire to a dwelling house. Mahadeo, of ‘F’ Grove Riverside, East Bank Demerara, was not required to plead to the charge which said, on August 7, at Grove, he unlawfully and maliciously set fire to the dwelling house of Nanroy Mahadeo, while persons were inside.
Mahadeo, told the court that he lighted a candle and left the house and that he “is not mad to burn down (his) own house”. He added that the property belongs to him and his siblings.
The defendant, who is a handyman at the Grove Police Station, asked for bail and was granted this in the sum of $30,000.
The matter will be called again on September 1.