Magistrate Chandrawattie Chandan and not Magistrate Chandra Sohan presided over the case of the drunk driver who ran into the Police Commissioner’s vehicle, Police said on Thursday.
In a press release, the Guyana Police Force said that Sohan’s name was inadvertently mentioned and any inconvenience that may have been caused is regretted.
A press release from the Police Public Relations Department on Monday had said that Magistrate Sohan heard the matter at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and later fined the driver, Zaheer Waheed, $7,500, after he pleaded guilty. According to the release, police were investigating “a damage incident,” which occurred about 19:21 hours on Sunday on Sheriff Street which resulted in damage to a motor car assigned to the office of the police Commissioner Henry Greene.
Greene at the time was being driven by Corporal 19137 Henry, south along the eastern carriageway of Sheriff Street when the car was struck by motor car PMM 6734 driven by Zaheer Waheed, 34, of Amelia’s Ward, Linden.
Waheed’s car was proceeding west when it failed to stop at the junction and drove into the path of the commissioner’s vehicle resulting in a collision and damage to both vehicles.
Both drivers were tested for alcohol in their bodies and “Waheed was found to have 175 microgrammes, while the policeman registered zero microgrammes”.
Magistrate Sohan after reading of the incident contacted this newspaper saying that he could not have been the presiding magistrate since he was in Berbice at the time.
