Police officers yesterday spent the better part of the day at the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI) in an attempt to read carnal knowledge charges to Chandra Narine Sharma but his doctor kept them at bay saying he was too ill to answer to any charges.
Sources told Stabroek News that the officers were recalled late yesterday afternoon as they were not allowed to near the CNS Channel 6 boss.
Sharma has been under police guard at the institution since last Thursday night after he collapsed at the Brickdam Police Station, where he was about to be placed in custody.
The 72 hours under which the law stipulates that a person could be held without charges elapsed on Sunday and the police wanted to read the charges to the popular television talk show host even if he was unable to attend court.
Sharma on Sunday had given extensive interviews to reporters and according to a source, the TV station owner host is suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure. Only recently Sharma had stents inserted into his heart at the institution.
Several allegations of sexual molestation of young children from a single family have been made against Sharma and yesterday sources told this newspaper that the girls had related some of the most sordid details of their chilling experiences with the leader of the Justice For All party.
The allegations against Sharma were triggered by an affidavit made by a 13-year-old girl, who detailed years of sexual abuse which started since she was seven. She had also alleged that he molested two older sisters when they were children and at least one of her younger sisters.
The two older sisters, aged 18 and 21, along with their mother had also made affidavits which refuted their sister’s claim, but the two young women subsequently changed their stories and detailed to the police years of abuse during children were borne.
Police are still seeking Primotie Danraj, the mother of the girls. The authorities gave the woman’s last known address as 43 Robb Street, Lacytown, Georgetown, which is Sharma’s residence. The family had resided in an open space at Sharma’s residence, but since the allegations surfaced the woman and her two younger children no longer live there.
“It is just horrible what those girls experienced, it makes the stomach sick,” a source told Stabroek News yesterday.
Meanwhile, Stabroek News has been reliably informed that large financial offers have been made to the persons close to the sisters. Reports are offers of $1 million, $5 million and $10 million were made but all of these were refused.
And sources at the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security yesterday said that the two younger girls, aged nine and five, had been found were sent to be medically examined before being taken into protective custody along with their three sisters and their 12-year-old cousin.
Further reports are surfacing that unknown persons have been attempting to find the sisters. On Sunday, a man turned up at an institution operated by the ministry and said he was told that the sisters were there and he wanted to see them.