The 27-year-old man accused of chopping his mother-in-law when she rebuked him for beating her daughter appeared at the Mibicuri Magistrate’s Court yesterday in relation to felonious wounding.
The man, Khemraj “Videsh” Dingoor, a rice farmer of Yakusari, Black Bush Polder was charged with feloniously wounding his mother-in-law, Kowsilla “Geeta” Singh, 35, with intent to maim, disfigure, disable and to cause grievous bodily harm.
The court heard that on October 21 last Dingoor reportedly chopped Singh on her face. She sustained injuries from her left ear to the corner of her mouth and was a patient of the New Amsterdam Hospital (NAH).
He first appeared at the Whim Court on Monday last and was refused bail after Police Prosecutor; Sergeant Michael Grant informed Magistrate Chandra Sohan that Singh was still hospitalized.
He was however placed on $100,000 bail at the Springlands Court on Thursday last after the court checked with the doctor at the NAH and learnt that she had been discharged the same day.
Reports are that Dingoor had beaten the woman’s daughter, 18-year-old Nirvanie Singh called “Geeta” and she jumped from a window and hid in some bushes. When it was safe she ran to a neighbour’s house and telephoned her mother.
When Singh scolded Dingoor about beating her daughter he reportedly whipped out a cutlass from under a chair and dealt her the chop. She bled profusely from the wound and had to be hospitalized.
The defendant, accompanied by his lawyer, attorney-at-law, Ramesh Rajkumar, surrendered at the Whim Police Station. He is scheduled to return to court on December 2.
