THE relatives of Bhagwan Boodram, who was killed in an early morning hit-and-run accident on the Meten-Meer-Zorg Public Road, some six months ago, are very perturbed by the silence of the Leonora Police Station and the fact that no one has yet been arrested and charged with his death.

This reporter had tried to contact Police Public Relations Officer, Ivelaw Whittaker on several occasions but was unsuccessful.
Bhagwan Boodram’s mangled body was found in a drain in front of a church near the Meten-Meer-Zorg Public Road on December 31, 2012 by a group of young boys. The boys had recognised his body and told the man’s son, who then rushed to the scene and found his father’s body lying in the drain, surrounded by debris and broken glass.
Boodram, 43, who lived with his wife and three children in Sideline Dam, East Meten-Meer-Zorg, had left his home around 19:00 hrs the night before to visit his family in another village. When midnight was approaching, Boodram’s family said that he told them he was going to go home even though they had pleaded with him to stay the night.
Around 12:00hrs a resident of Meten-Meer-Zorg was awakened by a loud noise, which sounded as though a vehicle had collided with something. Upon checking through her window, the woman said she saw a man exit  a route 32 minibus, BJJ 4469, and shouted that he had just hit a horse. Two other men came out of the bus and they, along with the driver, picked up something from the road and flung it into the drain.
The eyewitness said that while the bus was driving away she took down the license plate number just in case. However, she had thought nothing of the incident since animals would regularly be struck down by vehicles on the road.
But when Boodram’s body was discovered, the eyewitness had reported what she had seen and had given the police the license plate number and the police had then arrested the driver of the vehicle.
The next day, however, the police released the man. Boodram’s daughter was told that the driver was not a suspect in the case and he had witnesses to prove that he had hit an animal that night. She said that the driver had admitted to something that night but it wasn’t a man. The police, she continued, had told her that she should refrain from making assumptions and creating false allegations.
However, the woman said she believes that the man was released because he was the brother of a high ranking officer at the Police Station.
“I feel so confused…there is so much stress on my head and nothing can take away the shock that I had lost my husband. He life gone so easy and nobody ain’t telling me nothing. Nobody ain’t care and now me and my children left to suffer…it isn’t fair,” Boodram’s wife, Indira, told this newspaper.
She said that all she desired is for her husband’s death to gain justice and for the person who killed him to be locked away in prison. “All we want is peace of mind…it’s hard…every day is hard…six months and we ain’t hear nothing, how long do I have to wait?” she cried, saying that she wanted to look at the man who killed her husband and drove away without a backward glance.
She said her husband had loved her very much and cared deeply for his children. “He was always good to me…he loved me so much,” she said, adding that it was heartless that someone would  hit another human being down and drive away without giving any  help.
The autopsy report had shown that Boodram died of multiple injuries caused in an accident. His brother, Dindial Boodram had said that he had sustained trauma to his head, fractures to his ribs and a fracture to his cervical vertebrae.
Eyewitnesses, who resided in East Meten-Meer-Zorg, had told Boodram’s family that they had seen the driver and a few other men drinking outside a Chinese Restaurant earlier on the night that Boodram was killed.