Ramjattan rebuffs Nandlall over firing of torture cop

Anil Nandlall

Defending his decision to instruct Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud to fire one of the policemen who tortured a 15-year-old boy at the Leonora Police Station in 2009, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan says he also expects the Police Service Commission (PSC) to dismiss the second cop implicated, who it promoted earlier this year.

Ramjattan yesterday told Stabroek News that Corporal Mohanram Dolai has since been dismissed from the force and that he was in the middle of preparing a letter to send to the secretary of the PSC arguing the case why this administration would not want the commission to continue the retention much less the promotion of Inspector Narine Lall. He said that Persaud, who had last year defended the promotion of the men and who would have preferred Dolai and recommended Narine’s, has since agreed with his arguments