KRISHENDAT Seeram, a prisoner remanded for robbery-under-arms, is alleged to have raped (not sodomised) a forty-year-old fellow remand inmate of the New Amsterdam Prisons and resident of the Amerindian Reservation of Orealla, Upper Corentyne, Berbice. The act is alleged to have been committed within the walls of the New Amsterdam Prisons on June 25 last.

Seeram appeared before New Amsterdam Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs Marcus to answer the offence, and was admitted to $150,000 bail.

Police Sergeant Godfrey Playter, prosecuting, said that Seeram, of Lot 341 Yakusari North, Black Bush Polder, Corentyne, had engaged in sexual penetration of the alleged victim without the alleged victim’s consent.

He said that on the day in question, the men were in a cell when another prisoner held the complainant in a vice whilst the defendant allegedly removed the complainant’s pants and committed the act without the complainant’s consent.

The complainant was taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where a medical practitioner confirmed that he had been sexually violated.

The case will be recalled on September 8, when statements are expected to be filed.

Seeram’s alleged victim had himself been remanded following a charge of attempted rape when the incident occurred behind the walls of the New Amsterdam Prison. The complainant reportedly told prison wardens of the dastardly act a day after it had allegedly been committed, and after he was experiencing much discomfort. He confessed that he was greatly ashamed to reveal the incident.