Two men who were attacked with bottles at a wedding house at Tempe Village, West Coast Berbice three Saturday nights ago said that despite their injuries the attackers have still not been charged.
Basdeo Narine, 50 and Naresh Surajbali, 49, both of Plantation Hope Housing Scheme at Bath sustained injuries to their face and head respectively. They were also badly beaten about their bodies.
The men were treated at the Fort Wellington Hospital and sent away but a few days later Surajbali’s condition worsened and he had to be hospitalized at the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital for one night.
He also had to return for a check-up and the doctor has ordered a CT scan of the head because “the x-ray can’t pick up everything.”
He has spent a lot of money so far and was annoyed that the youths who were responsible for wounding him and Narine were not even locked up.
“They (attackers) went to the station and were sent home. If we had died then they woulda gone free,” Surajbali, a labour at the Blairmont Sugar Estate said.
He also lamented that they were not getting justice and that he does not believe that the matter was properly investigated.
Both men have visited Commander of ‘B’ Division, Stephen Merai who then ordered a full investigation into the matter but according to them, nothing has been done.
Surujbali pointed out too, “The crop now start and I am losing work.
I have a family to maintain and bills to pay. They are depriving me of my happiness. I don’t know what would happen to my head later.”
He recalled that they were preparing to leave the wedding house when the men “ambushed me and started to beat me with bottles and a lug spanner from behind.”
He also showed this newspaper marks that were imprinted on his back from the mouths of the bottles.
Before the beating Narine had ordered two youths who were sitting on his car to get off.
The group of men who were standing nearby then walked up to them and started to rain blows on him with bottles. Narine had told Stabroek News that he managed to “grip” one of the men and threw him to the ground. He then let loose of the man and ran into the yard.
The men who were apparently friends of the ones who were sitting on his car then cornered Surajbali and beat him “mercilessly.”
Narine had said too that he recognized one of the men from the group as the person who was supposed to have gotten married to his daughter.
Narine had broken off the relationship and after that he had received several threatening text messages.
An off-duty police officer who was in the vicinity tried to intervene to get the men to stop their abusive behaviour and he suffered a slash to his right hand.
He too had to be treated at the hospital.
However, Narine is claiming that the officer was in fact one of the persons who had physically abused Surujbali.
Stabroek News was unable to elicit a comment from a senior police officer in Berbice regarding the progress with the investigation.
