2nd person charged for abducting Mahaica businessman

A month after 55-year-old retired Policeman Kenneth Bahadur was charged for abducting a businessman of Mahaica, East Coast Demerara (ECD), another man, Sameer Bacchus, charged with the same crime, appeared on Friday before Georgetown Magistrate Leron Daly and pleaded not guilty to a charge which stated that, on September 12, at Station Street, Kitty, Georgetown, he abducted Jagdish Mangal with intent to secretly confine him.
Retired cop Kenneth Bahadur of Melanie, ECD had not been required to plead to the indictable charge when he appeared in court last month; but on Friday, Bahadur, who had been previously released on $200,000 bail, entered a not-guilty plea.

Bail was also granted to Sameer Bacchus in the sum of $200,000 on Friday.
Police Headquarters have reported that the 35-year-old Jagdish Mangal, a businessman of Belmont, Mahaica, ECD, was abducted on September 12 at around 19:00h from a popular bar at Station Street, Kitty.
He was allegedly relieved of over $3.6M worth of gold and diamond jewellery by two men and the retired cop. Based on reports, Mangal and the men are known to each other, and have an ongoing dispute over money.
Mangal told detectives that he was at the bar imbibing when the two men and the retired cop arrived in a vehicle. The men exited the car, approached him, and began punching him about his body while telling him that they wanted their money. The retired Policeman was allegedly heard telling the men to take the victim away, and Mangal was then forced into the back seat of the suspects’ vehicle.
Mangal has further claimed that while in the vicinity of Vlissengen Road, Georgetown, one of the suspects pointed a gun at him and relieved him of a gold-and-diamond band valued at $1.5M, a gold ring with a black diamond valued at $1.2M, and a gold chain valued at $900,000.
Mangal also told the cops that he was taken to the home of one of the suspects in Kitty, where he was forced at gunpoint to sign a note stating that he owed the suspects $900,000, before he was taken to a hotel on Church Street, Georgetown, where he was ordered out of the vehicle by the two men.
The matter was later reported to the Brickdam Police Station, and detectives who visited the bar at Station Street, Kitty questioned several persons, including the proprietor, about the incident, and the retired Policeman was later arrested.
As part of their investigations, Police detectives had reviewed footage from nearby CCTV cameras. (G1)