NANKUMAR Bhagwandin, 50, of Fourth Street, Good Hope, is now in the Georgetown Hospital in a serious condition, after allegedly being beaten by his two sons, aged 19 and 18.His right arm is fractured, his face and head are badly battered, there’s a deep cut in his left palm and some of his teeth are missing.
The assault was committed on him on Friday around 16:00 hrs at the home of his wife Jasmattie Lalbacchan of 302 Good Hope New Housing Scheme.
Bhagwandin, who says he works on a fishing boat at sea, claimed that the beating was done in full view of neighbours and a shop man from Mon Repos who was in the area at the time rescued him and took him to hospital.
The injured man recalled that last Saturday he called his wife on the phone and told her that he wanted to come by to see his grandson. He said that as he was speaking to her on the phone he heard his gransdon’s voice in the background, saying that she should ask him (grandfather) to buy chocolate for him.
Bhagwandin said that the following afternoon around 16:00 hrs he showed up at the home, picked up the child and took him to a nearby shop and bought caramel for him. On his return minutes later, he was confronted by his wife Jasmattie who became very abusive, hurled insults at him and ordered him away from the yard. On hearing the altercation, two of Bhagwandin’s sons who were then in their wash bay, hastened over and proceeded to beat him with a piece of ‘T-Shore’ used in the construction of houses.
The man claimed that he was beaten so badly, he struggled and fell to the ground, bleeding and begging for help, but the neighbours did not intervene. The Mon Repos businessman who came by and saw what was happening stopped the man’s sons from beating him and took him to hospital.
Nankumar Bhagwandin would like to bring this matter to the attention of the Welfare Officers of the Ministry of Human Services since he sees this as a serious act of domestic abuse. Since the incident, he has remained clad only in a blood-stained pair of three-quarter jeans, wearing no shirt and he has no slippers on his feet. The man says he has clothes at home, but there is no one to visit him in hospital and bring them for him. He is also badly in need of toiletries.
