Craig man grabbed from workplace and beaten over stolen ducks

-mother calls for justice

An elderly woman is calling for police action after her son was forcibly taken from his worksite and beaten by persons who accused him of stealing ducks from their farm. They later took him to the police.

Seewpersaud Rampher, 41, of 294 Buzz Bee Dam, Craig, was up to yesterday afternoon in custody at the Grove Police Station and was bleeding from a wound, his mother, Hemrani Rampher said. The widow called for police to take action against those who beat him. “Not because they got money, you can’t get justice”, the elderly woman lamented.

Rampher acknowledged that her son is a drug addict but said this does not give anyone the right to beat him and said that he did not steal the ducks as alleged. She recalled that even before the incident, he was involved in an argument with another man on Friday and the man chopped him in the hip. After he was treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital, Seewpersaud was in bed all of Saturday, she said. At about 3:30pm that day, the duck-rearer and several of his relatives came to her home and asked for him. The woman said that they accused him of stealing the ducks and threatened to “finish” him.

Rampher said that yesterday, Seewpersaud went to the home of a resident for whom he normally does odd jobs and while he was working another man came and took him away in a vehicle. She said that the man was sent by the poultry farmers. “They pick he up from the place where he was, took him to the premises and beat him”, she related. She said that Seewpersaud was beaten with a steel rod.

“When they done beat he in the backdam, they take he to the station”, Rampher said.

She told Stabroek News that she visited the station yesterday but was not allowed to see him but he called out to her and named the persons who beat him and also said that they lashed him on the hip wound and it was bleeding again. “I don’t know what to do. Right now he is in the station bleeding from the wound”, she said yesterday.

The pensioner noted that the police rank at the station has assured her that he will investigate. She also said she was advised to visit the Ruimveldt Police Station but turned back after seeing the number of persons there waiting on the police. Rampher called for the police to investigate the matter and for justice to be done.