Man jailed for 9 months over assault

Shamnarine Ramnanan

After being found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm on another man, a 26-year-old man was yesterday jailed for 9 months by Magistrate Sunil Scarce.

On his first appearance in court, Shamnarine Ramnanan was charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on Vijai Singh and was placed on $100,000 bail.               The charge was an indictable one but after Administration of Justice Act was applied, the man pleaded not guilty to the offence.

According to the police facts, on December 23, 2013 at around 9.30 pm Singh was