Fisherman Sanjay Seecharran, who admitted to stealing a quantity of fibre optic cable belonging to the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT), was on Tuesday sentenced to three years in jail for the crime.
Seecharran, 24, was arraigned before Magistrate Sunil Scarce in Georgetown, where he was read the charge that between July 22 and July 24, 2017, at Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara, he stole the fibre optic cable, valued at $1,394,444, and which was the property of GTT.
Subsequently, Seecharran, of Lot 14 Grove, East Bank Demerara, pleaded guilty and he was sentenced by Magistrate Scarce to three years in jail.
