Discharge of treason case warrants a challenge

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday said that the recent discharge of the treason case warrants a challenge but stopped short of saying whether one would be mounted.

Describing the outcome of the case as an “incredible ruling”, he told reporters at a post cabinet press briefing that “essentially the supporters of that challenge of the magistrate seem inclined to rest their arguments not on the evidence but on claimed procedural omission”.

A week ago Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry ruled that the charge against GDF Major Bruce Munroe, his