A police officer was chopped on Monday night when he intervened in a fight outside of a wedding house opposite his home and he is dissatisfied with how fellow officers have handled the case so far.
Kumar Mangru, of Lot 10 Third Street, Foulis, Enmore, East Coast Demerara, is now nursing chop wounds to his head and his face as a result of the attack.
According to his wife, Seeranie Indar, around 11 pm on Monday, they saw about five men mercilessly beating a man who eventually fell into the drain. She said upon seeing the beating, she advised her husband that as a police officer he should enquire what exactly was happening. However, she said when he did he was hit about his head and face with broken bottles.
Mangru fell to the ground but managed to get up and seek refuge in his home. According to Indar, about five minutes after, the perpetrators, who were under the influence of alcohol, entered their yard and surrounded their house. “Y’all better come out or I will murder all ayo now,” one of them shouted.
She and her husband then secured the house but this aggravated the men, who threw bottles and stones at the house, leaving damage that was visible when this newspaper visited yesterday. Most of the windows were broken. “All this was cause somebody try to save what could possibly be someone life eh,” Indira said.
She said they tried to call the police station on numerous occasions while locked in the house and only got a response some 40 minutes after, which was approximately the time the incident lasted for.
The police arrived on the scene, after which Mangru positively identified four of his attackers, who by then had gone back over to the wedding house and were continuing their celebrations. They were arrested and taken to the Cove and John Police Station.
But Mangru noted that when he enquired yesterday, he was told that they were released on $20,000 bail each. He was disappointed at the men being released on bail and voiced his doubt that there will be no progress in the matter.
Mangru is stationed at the Mora Point Police Station and is currently on annual leave. He has been a member of the Guyana Police Force for some 13 years.
