Transformer case collapses for want of evidence

Ganesh Ramlal

Magistrate Fazil Azeez was last Tuesday forced to dismiss the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) stolen transformer case based on the insufficiency of evidence with the failure of the prosecution to call key witnesses being the primary factor in its collapse.

The owner of the Regent Multiplex Mall, Ganesh Ramlall; his electrician Rajesh Sanchara and David Jones walked out of the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court free men, more than two years after they were jointly charged with stealing the transformer which was found installed at the Regent and Wellington Street business place. The trial started during the first quarter of last year.

The prosecution closed its case without calling several important witnesses who would have been able to testify about the actual theft of