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Cops locate Babita Sarjou file
After informing the relatives of Babita Sarjou that the original file, with statements taken after the woman went missing in 2010 cannot be located, the police on Friday said that they have managed to locate that file.
Babita Sarjou with her newborn and husband some time ago.
Sarjou is the young mother who disappeared almost six years ago,
The Guyana Police Force said that the original file has been located and the investigations into the matter are continuing apace.
Sarjou’s mother, Champa Seonarine, and other relatives were forced to give new statements on Tuesday to the Guyana Police Force (GPF) Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at Eve Leary after they were informed that the file could not be located.
Seonarine, in an interview had said that she was summoned to the police headquarters where she was informed by the Commissioner of Police, Seelall Persaud and Crime Chief, Wendell Blanhum that the original file could not be located.
The woman was also briefed of the police’s intentions of re-opening the case into Sarjou’s disappearance.
“I had to give them statements and they took DNA samples,” the woman revealed. She is now hoping to get some information which would enable her to know what really happened to the woman almost six years ago.
Seonarine had previously accused the police of conducting a sloppy investigation into her daughter’s disappearance.
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 6, 2012, CADVA was informed in writing by the DPP that further investigations were 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 the DPP for further advice. This did not happen.
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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