HIGH Court Judge, Justice Navindra Singh recently discharged the Order Nisi in the murder case involving Indira Outar, of Corentyne, Berbice.

Outar was charged on February 28, 2017 with the murder of domestic worker, Lelawattie Mohamed, who was gunned down in her Tain, Corentyne, home on February 7.
The murder accused–a business woman–of Lot 8, Block 4, Tain Settlement, had appeared before Magistrate Charlyn Artiga at the Whim Magistrate’s Court where she was represented by Attorney Mursaline Bacchus.

It is alleged that Outar procured five persons namely: Oliver Permaul, 34, and his wife Nazeema Permaul, 42, both of Lot 100 Tain Settlement; Andre James, 26, called “Tatoo man”, of Lot 46 George Street, Rose Hall Town; Rohan Johnson, 39, called “Jamaky” of Clarendon, Jamaica, and of 107 Second Street, Rose Hall Town; and Shabiki Alert Thompson, 28, the common law wife of Johnson, to kill Mohamed.

The five persons were jointly charged with the woman’s murder on February 15, 2017. It is reported that on February 7, two men stormed into Mohamed’s home, and killed her in the presence of her son and daughter.

Meanwhile, Outar had appeared before Magistrate Charlyn Artiga who remanded her to prison. As a result, the murder accused filed an application on July 11, 2017, seeking Writs of Certiorari and Prohibition against the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), the Commissioner of Police and Detective Corporal Stacy Yearwood (Respondents) to quash the decision of the respondents to institute the murder charge, unless cause is shown why the orders/writs should not be made absolute.

However, Justice Singh, after reading the submissions of the Attorneys-at-Law for the Applicant (Mursaline Bacchus) and the Respondents (Utieka John) it was ordered that the Nisi Order granted be discharged.

The judge held that the DPP acted within the confines of her statutory and/or Constitutional authority in instituting criminal charges against Outar.
Additionally, it was also ordered that cost be awarded to the respondents in the sum of $100,000.