TWENTY-YEAR-OLD Orin Forde (no address given) and Kishan Jaikarran, 24, of Lot ‘E’ Sophia, Greater Georgetown, were remanded to prison yesterday, on a joint charge of cultivating cannabis (marijuana). They appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry and both pleaded not guilty to the offence, particulars of which said they cultivated the prohibited plant on May 10.
Police Sergeant Joel Ali, prosecuting, said the defendants were arrested on a farm where they were attending to the cultivation.
The duo will make another appearance at Christianburg Court, in Linden, to where the case has been transferred, on May 17.