THE charges of assault and wrongful detention on Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Mahendra Singh and Police Corporal Christopher Dharamraj, were on Monday withdrawn by the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecution.

The attorney representing the men said that the decision of the DPP Chambers came after several inconsistences were found in the file as given by the victim, who made the report against the lawmen.

The corporal was charged with causing actual bodily harm, while the police ASP was charged with wrongful detention of the victim.
Added to that, the two men were also charged departmentally but it is it unclear if those sanctions were already executed. The men were also transferred from their original postings in the force.

The Guyana Chronicle was told that the man, who made the claims against the ranks, did not appear in court when the matters were called.

The ASP and corporal were accused of operating a strip club at Diamond and it was alleged that on one of the ‘business nights’, at the establishment, the corporal assaulted a taxi driver while the ASP detained him after he threatened to speak out about their involvement in the operation of an illegal strip club.

The man had claimed that he was at the location to make a pick up and the police prevented him from entering the facility and assaulted him.
The Police Office of Professional Responsibility was also involved in the matter and this resulted in the officers being sanctioned departmentally and transferred from their original postings.