– was in the process of closing down business

RELATIVES of 86-year-old Bibi Ramjit remain baffled at her brutal murder and are calling on the Guyana Police Force to conduct a thorough probe to bring the perpetrator (s) to justice.
A relative, who prefers to remain anonymous, told the Guyana Chronicle that the businesswoman was robbed in July this year and so she had decided to close down the business; she was in the process of doing so by selling out the items from her shop.

Ramjit, who operated a grocery shop on the lower flat of her Lot 63 Old Road, La Grange, West Bank Demerara (WBD) house, was found gagged and her hands and feet tied on her bed in the upper flat of the house.

The gruesome discovery was made on Sunday afternoon between 15:00hrs and 17:00hrs by one of her customers. According to a report from the police, the customer – a 59-year-old farmer of Schoonard, WBD, went to purchase eddoes from Ramjit on Sunday but she did not have change for his $5,000 and so he told Ramjit that he will drop her money later and went away.
According to the police, at about 17:00hrs, the farmer returned and observed the shop door and the back door to the upper flat wide open; he called out several times for Ramjit but got no response.

As a result, he proceeded to the upper flat of the house where he looked into a bedroom and saw the businesswoman lying motionless on her back on her bed with her feet and hands tied.
“He immediately raised an alarm and the Police was summoned to the scene,” Police Headquarters said.
It was further noted that detectives did not find any marks of violence on Ramjit’s body but they observed that the house was ransacked. Ramjit lived alone as her six children reside overseas.

INDEPENDENT AND ACTIVE
The relative described Ramjit as an “independent and active” woman who did not allow her age to deter her from doing the things she loved.
According to the relative, members of the family did not visit Ramjit on a daily basis due to the fact that her age made her a high risk for contracting the COVID-19 virus.
The relative stated that while she was not able to see Ramjit’s body or enter the house, the neighbours gave her a detailed description of the state of Ramjit and her home.
“I cannot say what happened up there because the police told us we can’t go in because it’s an active scene, but the neighbours that found her told us that the house was ransacked.
“They said her mouth was tied, her feet were bound together and her arms were tied.”

According to the relative, neighbours would usually check in on Ramjit on a daily basis. The body of Ramjit is currently at the Ezekiel Funeral Parlour awaiting a post-mortem examination.