Two suspects have been taken into custody in connection with a robbery around 7:20 pm on Wednesday at Yakusari North, Black Bush Polder in which businessman, Sarjoodin “Jango” Jewdhan was shot.
The 62-year-old businessman, the owner of a gas station and a liquor restaurant and bar is still a patient at the New Amsterdam Hospital nursing injuries to his foot. The bandits escaped with a bag containing $3M that was in a drawer in the shop.
The man’s son, Gowsamie Jewdhan told Stabroek News yesterday that his father who is also a rice farmer sold fertilizer on a large scale.
He said the money was proceeds from the fertilizer sale and that his father was supposed to have handed over the money to the dealer yesterday after taking the fertilizer on credit.
Gowsamie said he learnt from the doctor that his father damaged a bone in his foot. He said too that while his condition was stable the family was still worried about him because he is diabetic and is thinking of taking him to Georgetown for further treatment.
A police press release stated that the robbery was committed by two masked men with firearms.
The release said that Jewdhan was in the process of closing his liquor shop when the two men entered and held him up.
They then took away an undisclosed amount of money from a drawer and a quantity of jewellery from a bedroom upstairs and escaped, shooting Jewdhan, according to the release.
The man’s daughter, Parbattie Jewdhan who lives two houses away had said her father had just closed up his business and was sitting on a bench outside of the kitchen in the bottom flat when the bandits pounced on him.
Sursattie Jewdhan, 60, his wife told Stabroek News yesterday that she had gone upstairs while her husband was sitting downstairs when she suddenly heard him screaming.
She said two men who had just purchased Guinness and were leaving heard the man screaming and went to investigate. When they saw the bandits they too started to scream. They tried to run away but the bandits grabbed them and held the guns to their necks.
Sursattie said she became terrified and hid in a corner of the house and when one of the men came upstairs he did not find her. The bandits with the bag of money held a gun to her husband downstairs while two others were on the ‘dam’ keeping watch.
Gowsamie said his father told him he tried to grab the bag with the money and it was at that stage he was shot.