Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said yesterday that there is nothing to investigate in the case of Indramattie Boladass who relatives believe died after she was severely beaten by her husband.
“You reported that she [Boladass] died of a heart-attack,” the Crime Chief said when questioned yesterday. “She died of a natural cause so what is there to investigate?” In addition to finding Boladass’s cause of death the autopsy performed on Wednesday also revealed that she had suffered four broken ribs and a fractured hip. Her relatives are still convinced that her heart-attack was induced by the severity of the beating they believe she suffered.
Rampertab Boladass has denied ever beating his wife. Boladass, he said, fell twice in their yard and sustained the injuries as a result. He laid his wife to rest yesterday.
“We are not giving up,” Hamawattie Singh, the woman’s sister, told this newspaper at the Lyken’s Funeral Parlour yesterday. “I convinced that as a result of what he did to her she died.”
Singh and other relatives had alleged that on March 2 Rampertab severely beat his now dead wife after a neighbour made a comment about feeding the woman. Boladass was reportedly being abused and starved in her Coconut Dam, Cane Grove home before her death.
She died at the Georgetown Public Hospital early Monday morning. There were marks of violence throughout Boladass’ body. The inside of her mouth was also damaged and she was unable to speak. However, the day before she died Boladass reportedly indicated to relatives that Rampertab had beaten her.
There were also reports that a neighbour rushed over to the couple’s home on March 2 to part the alleged fight.
“If the police would just do an investigation,” Singh said. “They don’t have to investigate her death but they can investigate the assault… my sister suffered and we want justice.”
Her sister, Singh said, could not have sustained the injuries she did by falling twice in the yard.
“All the police got to do is a lil bit investigation. They just got to ask the neighbour that went over to part de fight about what he see and there are many other witness who see my sister getting beat. There is de neighbours that used to give she food when she not getting feed home.”
After the autopsy, Singh said she had been advised that a file would be put together and then sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions for advice. However, she admitted yesterday that the Criminal Investigation Department rank might have just said that to brush her off.
“Yes so the post-mortem show that my sister die because she heart stop working but why did this happen? Is not because he beat she? And if she get the heart attack because of de injuries he give her, then is na he responsible for her death?” Singh reasoned.