Latest update March 29th, 2025 5:38 AM
Mahaica poultry farmer was strangled
A post mortem examination has confirmed that Unity, Mahaica poultry farmer Ramlogan Singh was strangled.
Singh’s bound body, with a cloth tied tightly over his mouth and around his neck, was discovered in his house by his son, Surujballi, early Sunday morning.
The home was ransacked, convincing investigators that they were dealing with a robbery/murder.
Ramlogan Singh
They believe that the acts were the work of persons from the Mahaica area but they are not ruling out outside elements.
Police have detained several persons from the community, who have had previous brushes with the law.
This was a result of information received that they were seen acting suspiciously around the time that Singh was believed to have been slain.
However, a source at Mahaica told this newspaper that the police do not have anything substantial to link those in custody to the crime.
Ramlogan Singh, called ‘Tun Tun’, who had lived alone, was last seen alive by his grandson, Naresh, around 15:00 hours on Saturday.
His son, Surujballi, who lives in a house next door to his father, said that he was aroused by someone calling at his father’s gate to purchase chicken.
The visitor was a popular cricket commentator who buys his poultry from the elderly farmer.
“He came to buy four chickens and he keep calling, and he went upstairs and rap at the door and no answer,” Surujballi Singh told this newspaper.
“When I go over, everything open. I go right upstairs, straight into the room and I discover he two hand tie at de back and he two foot tie too. He deh face down.”
He laid the blame squarely on the prevalence of drug use in the community.
Police recovered pieces of items associated with drug use from the murder scene.
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