Naresh Pooran, the Foulis businessman who was shot during a robbery at his home on Sunday night, is slowly improving at a private city hospital.
The armed robbery, police said in a release yesterday, occurred around 7.30 that night. Investigations, according to them, have revealed that Pooran was shot and injured to his abdomen.
The businessman and his wife Christine, police said, were in the lower flat of their home when three men, one armed with a handgun, entered through an open door. The men then held up the couple and some time during the incident Puran was shot.
The perpetrators, police said, then took away an undisclosed sum of cash and escaped in Pooran’s motor vehicle PMM 4412. The vehicle was later found abandoned along the railway embankment at Coldingen, East Coast Demerara.
When Stabroek News spoke with the man’s relatives yesterday they indicated that his condition was improving but declined to comment further about the details of the incident.
Meanwhile, Pooran’s car has since been taken to the Cove and John Police Station. The vehicle, this newspaper learnt, was dusted for finger prints and thoroughly checked for other evidence.
Police up to late yesterday afternoon were yet to make an arrest.
This newspaper had learnt from reliable sources on Sunday night that Pooran was robbed of approximately $4 million in cash, jewellery and other valuables.
However, the man’s relatives declined to confirm this when questioned yesterday afternoon. A man, who said he was Pooran’s employee, claimed that the amount quoted by this newspaper in the earlier report was more than what the bandits stole.
“When you put things like that in the newspaper,” the man stated, “then these bandits going to think that he got nuff and they going to come again.”
