MAGISTRATE Geeta Chandan-Edmond yesterday, again, adjourned the witness tampering case in which Channel Six television owner
Chandra Narine Sharma and five others are charged. The court was told that the absent Sharma is ill and the adjournment was taken to February 18.
Attorney-at-law, Mr. Sanjeev Datadin, is prosecuting for the State, against Sharma, his son-in-law, Ravi Mangar, Tyrone Ali, Mark
Reid, Raywattie Ramsaywack and Doodnauth, who are all charged with obstruction of justice.
That charge arose from a previous allegation that Sharma had carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 12 years, for which
he is also charged.
The witness tampering allegation is that Sharma willfully attempted to obstruct the course of justice by removing two of the
girls at the centre of the sexual accusation against him from their known address and taking them to a house at Golden Grove, East
Bank Demerara, in order to prevent them from being questioned by the Police.
Sharma first appeared, last April, before then Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, who refused him bail on the charge
of carnally knowing the underage girl.
At being denied pre-trial liberty, he collapsed in the prisoners’ chute and had to be rushed to hospital.