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Sharma has no desire to leave country – lawyers

May 02, 2010 News

Lawyers for embattled television station owner, Chandra Narine Sharma, have dismissed the Director of Public Prosecutor’s Shalimar Ali Hack’s comments that their client has a desire to leave the jurisdiction.
Lead attorney for Sharma, Nigel Hughes, in an invited comment, told Kaieteur News that his client has no intention to travel to Canada. He is staying to defend the charges which are presently before him, the lawyer said.
The lawyer said that he cannot understand the basis for the DPP making such a statement. Hughes said he hoped that it wasn’t that basis the charged of carnal knowledge was instituted against his client. He further said that even if his client wanted to leave the country an application would not be made in the magistrate’s court.
“If Sharma wants to leave Guyana, which he is not planning to do, he would have to apply to the High Court,” Hughes said.
The DPP, on Friday, said that the request by Sharma’s attorneys for his passport has nothing to do with boosting his defence, but about his wanting to travel to Canada.
Sharma was charged with carnal knowledge of a 13-year-old girl. He was released on $2 million bail. He was also charged with obstruction of justice in the same case and was released on $100, 000 bail.
Sharma’s legal team filed a motion to have certified copies of his passport admitted as evidence, claiming that this is integral to the defence of their client.
According to the DPP, Mr. Hughes is contending that this passport is required for the defence to prepare their defence to show that Mr. Sharma was out of Guyana at the time of the commission of the offence. The date of the charge is between July 23, 2003 and July 22, 2004.
According to the DPP, the copies of all 32 pages of the passport reveal that it is a new machine readable passport which was issued to Mr. Sharma on August 21, 2009.
She claims there are no entry or exit stamps on any of these 32 pages. The only thing on any of the pages is a Canadian Visa on page four with date of issue being March 10, 2010.
“It is clear that since this passport has no entry or exit stamps it cannot be intended to be used to prepare any defence but can only be used to travel to Canada. Given these facts, this passport therefore cannot be integral to the defence of Mr Sharma but rather integral to the travel of Mr. Sharma to Canada,” the DPP declared.
She said that the motion in the High Court is not merely for the return of the passport to prepare their defence but because they are alleging that they are not prepared and need time to prepare their defence.

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