THE body of 40-year-old kidnapped auto spares dealer, Rajendra Singh, was found yesterday morning in Le Repentir Cemetery with a gunshot wound to the head, hands tied behind his back and a cloth around his neck.
The four-day search for him ended when a City Council worker stumbled on the body in a section of the burial ground while preparing for burials. Singh, also called ‘Sunil,’ was kidnapped at gunpoint last Saturday from his Foulis, Enmore Public Road, East Coast Demerara, business place. Two men who turned up at the premises under the pretext of being customers

bundled Singh at gunpoint into his motorcar which was later found abandoned.
The kidnappers had initially demanded $50M, but later reduced the ransom to $25M.
A source close to the investigation said that the relative freshness of the corpse suggested that he was killed late Tuesday evening or in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.
The Guyana Chronicle was told that the businessman’s wife received her final warning to hand over the lowered $25M ransom within 24 hours on Tuesday. According to reports, most of the day Tuesday the woman was at the police station with investigators who were trying to locate her husband.
This newspaper was told that the kidnappers may have decided to kill the businessman after suspecting that the police were setting up a sting operation in handing over the ransom, with the likelihood of their capture.
Meanwhile, it is understood that the police will be continuing their investigations and are looking into Singh’s activities to find a lead.
On Tuesday, sources said, all contact with the kidnappers were lost as the phone which they were using to make contact with the man’s wife was no longer receiving calls.

(By Leroy Smith