The lifeless body of an Essequibo rice farmer was on Tuesday found at Reliance Backdam hours after he was reported missing by his relatives. Dead is 29-year-old Narendra Seecharran of Mainstay Public Road, Essequibo Coast, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam).
Although reports stated that he might have committed suicide, relatives are holding out that he might have been murdered since there were several marks of violence about his body.
More so, his relatives told Guyana Times that only recently, the young farmer and other rice farmers had a misunderstanding after he expanded his rice cultivation at Lima/Sparta, Essequibo Coast backdam.
Dead: Narendra Seecharan
In addition, the misunderstanding stemmed from chemical vapours from Seecharran’s field going into another field owned by other farmers.
However, based on reports received, Seecharran left his house to check his crop at about 17:30h on Monday but never returned home. Calls to his cell phone went unanswered and it was then that his sister used the google tracking app to check his location.
The app showed that the now dead young man was in the Reliance backdam, a few villages away from his rice field.
This promoted several relatives to come together to look for him. As they searched the area, they eventually found him hanging from a tree.
Relatives contended that his motorcycle was some two miles away and his clothes were torn.
The Police were contacted and the body was escorted to the Suddie Public Hospital Mortuary awaiting a post-mortem.
Meanwhile, the dead man’s mother, when contacted, stated “I don’t think that my son commit suicide, someone murdered my son.”
“They find his motorcycle throw away till by the canal…and about two miles he had to walk to go and hang himself, and it got trees right there where the motorcycle throw way. Why he didn’t hang himself right there? Why he walk two miles?”
“And the next thing too, he gone with very clean clothes and he whole clothes now deh thick, thick with mud like when somebody hold you and drag you…so like you could’ve see how he been fighting, to me like them strangle him,” the woman explained.
In addition, she noted that they found the pair of long boots that he was wearing when he left home. It was found about 50 feet from where his body was found.
“So I don’t think my son commit suicide, someone killed my son and I need justice,” the mother reiterated.
All the information has been provided to the Police and an investigation is underway.
