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Sand Hill residents to face judge and jury

Dec 11, 2010 News

Two men who hail from Sand Hills on the Berbice River were on Tuesday committed to stand trial in the High Court, by Magistrate Omeyana Hamilton sitting in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court.
The magistrate found that a Prime facie case has been made out against them for the capital offence of murder.
The men Dave Banwan, 27, and Elmo Benedict, 25, were charged with unlawfully killing Rakesh Rajaram on March 1, 2008 at Sand Hills, Berbice River.
It was understood that Rajaram who hailed from Kortbraat, East Bank Berbice, had fled his home after he was unable to pay his affiliation fee which had reached astronomical proportions.
He relocated to Sand Hills where he started to live and work as a coal miner. He sought refuge at the home of a known family in the area and after a while became involved with a teenaged daughter of his host.
Rajaram’s involvement with the teenager angered her parents, since she was already involved with someone else and they ordered him to leave, which he did. However he stayed in the area and constructed a shack not too far from his former host.
Some time later it is understood that Rajaram armed with an improvised shot gun abducted the girl from her home and took her to a clump of bushes in the area.
This moved furthered anger relatives. The woman’s intended partner and a close relative in the meantime armed themselves with cutlasses and went in search of the man, whom they located and allegedly chopped to death.
The teenager was also located and taken to her home along with the improvised shot gun and two cartridges.
The men were subsequently arrested and charged.

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