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Apr 14, 2014 News
The Guyana Police Force has dismissed reports that its ranks failed to act promptly to information on where the recently kidnapped businessman Rajendra Singh was being held.
The Force was responding to allegations made by “a source” in a Sunday Stabroek News article.
It was stated in the article that according to “well placed sources”, police had been informed that the kidnapped car dealer Rajendra Singh, who was later found murdered, was being held captive in an abandoned house at Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara, but ranks only visited the location hours later when he had been removed by his kidnappers.
The article went on to suggest that had the police acted promptly, Singh’s life would have been saved.
But the Guyana Police Force in a press release yesterday categorically denied that it was at any point in time provided with such information.
In the release, Public Relations Officer Ivelaw Whittaker outlined the details of the Force’s actions from the time it was aware of the kidnapping to present.
The police explained that since Rajendra Singh’s motor vehicle was recovered on the railway embankment at Goedverwagting on the very night of his kidnapping, intensive patrols comprising police ranks and Community Policing personnel were subsequently carried out in the area. However no helpful information was obtained.
According to the police, the following day, patrols continued and were extended to Plaisance and Sparendaam, ECD. Patrols were also done in squatting areas within the same areas.
Scores of people surround the dead businessman’s casket to get a glimpse at his body after it arrived at the cremation site.
After receiving sensitive information, a house at Bel Air, Georgetown, and another at Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke/Linden Highway were searched. A woman was then arrested at Yarrowkabra and later released.
The police said that on Monday last, based on certain information received, another four houses of the relatives of a particular family at Plaisance, East Coast Demerara were searched but “nothing of evidential value was found.”
The following day, further searches were conducted on the same four homes in addition to a fifth home belonging to another family member, also at Plaisance, but again nothing suspicious was discovered.
The police explained too that on that said day, members of the Police Force received information that the kidnapped auto dealer was in a house in the Goedverwagting Squatting area. Searches were conducted on the house and two others in the squatting area, as well as an abandoned ice factory at Claybrick Road, Goedverwagting. But nothing suspicious was found or seen.
The Force in the notification reiterated that at no time was it informed about the kidnapped victim being held in an abandoned house at Goedverwagting, or about him being removed from the location in a white mini-bus.
“The well-placed sources who allegedly have given the information about the abandoned house at Goedverwagting to the Stabroek News did not pass such information to the police. The police have acted professionally, and are continuing to do so, in keeping with its operational procedures, in the investigations into the kidnap and murder of businessman Rajendra Singh.”
Six men are currently in police custody. The Force applied for and received an extension of their time in custody until Wednesday, in order to continue with the investigations.
Singh’s bullet riddled body was found on Wednesday in the Le Repentir Cemetery.
Yesterday hundreds turned out at the Good Hope Cemetery where his body was cremated after viewing at his Enmore home.
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