Latest update February 6th, 2025 7:27 AM
Top Cop, Crime Chief meet with Babita Sarjou’s mother
– as fresh probe into disappearance begins
Top police officials have formally notified relatives of Babita Sarjou that they have re-opened their investigation into the woman’s baffling disappearance six years ago.
Babita Sarjou
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum told Kaieteur News that he and Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud met yesterday with Sarjou’s mother, Champa Seonarine, and other relatives.
“The Commissioner and I met with relatives, including the mother, and told her that we had re-opened the case.”
Blanhum had told Kaieteur News on Monday that investigators had contacted several individuals about Sarjou’s disappearance, and were able to obtain statements from them.
Sarjou, 28, disappeared on November 4, 2010 after telling her mother, that she would be meeting with her estranged husband and four-year-old son at the Kitty Seawall to view the annual Diwali Motorcade.
Sarjou was expected back at her mother’s Timehri residence around 21:00 hrs that night but never returned.
The Caribbean American Domestic Awareness Organization (CADVA), a Human Rights Organization, has been pressing the police to have the Sarjou case re-opened. During a recent press conference, Chief Operations Officer Dianne Madray criticized the police for the investigation they had conducted into Sarjou’s fate.
“Every little clue they get, the organization would forward the information to the police,” she said.
“When she disappeared, we gave her phone to the police, where she was threatened by her estranged husband. We showed them Facebook messages, but none of those things can be found now,” the woman said.
Kaieteur News was told that the police never attempted to obtain a printout of all the calls made to and from Sarjou’s phone.
Madray said that in 2012, CADVA had appealed to the Director for Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali- Hack for assistance.
On January 06, 2012, CADVA was informed in writing by the DPP that further investigation was recommended to clarify certain issues.
“The DPP had advised that a sample be taken from the bone tissue of the skeletal remains of a female that had washed up at the Weldaad foreshore less than a year after Babita disappeared,” Madray said.
Kaieteur News was told that upon completion of all of the investigations recommended, the file should have been returned to DPP for further advice, but as of April 2016, that file was never returned.
Madray said she had sent a letter to the Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan and on March 29, last, she received a response that her request would be passed on to the Commissioner of Police, Seelall Persaud.
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