Canefield pandit freed after murder charge discharged

Pandit Tharun Balgobin yesterday walked out of the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court as a free man after the murder charge against him was discharged.

In August, 2022, Balgobin, also known as ‘Arun’, 32, of Lot 918 New Area, East Canefield Settlement, East Canje, Berbice, had appeared before Magistrate Renita Singh at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court, where he was remanded to prison after he was charged with murdering Aangraj Kumar Indrapal, the man who was found dead at the pump station where he was working behind the Rose Hall Estate.

The charge stated that between Thursday, August 4 and Friday, August 5, 2022, at the Rose Hall Estate, Balgobin murdered Indrapal.