THE police are continuing their investigation into the hijacking of a recently purchased Silver-Grey Toyota IST  motor car PSS 8775, from its owner Tej Budram called “Anil” 34, as he was moonlighting as a taxi driver on Monday evening.

Budhram, of Lot 124 Main Street, Cumberland, East Canje, had just exited the Palmyra Gas station, on the Corentyne coastline, when he observed a man standing with what appeared to be a baby clutched to his chest.
He stopped primarily for the purpose of transporting the seemingly stranded man to his destination. However, as the “passenger” entered the vehicle, within seconds, four others entered the car, demanding that the driver take them to the Corentyne.
However, whilst driving along the longest straight road in the Caribbean, (Number 19 roadway), he was cuffed to the right side of his face, resulting in a broken mandible (jaw bone).
Budhram was weakened as a result of the cuff and his “passengers” thereafter took him out of the car and tied him with his own clothing, before bundling him into the trunk of his two-week old car.
After being driven for some minutes, he was pushed out of the car into a trench in the vicinity of the Courtland /Fyrish district.
Fortunately, he managed to untie himself, before hitching a ride to the Albion Police Station, where he reported the incident.
Budhram, a driver/ salesman with the Ansa McAl company, is hospitalized at the New Amsterdam Hospital. He told the Guyana Chronicle that his vehicle has no other markings except the registration  number which is engraved on the lights.