A chauffeur has initiated civil proceedings in the High Court against Justice Navindra Singh and is claiming $5 million in damages for what he says was his unlawful arrest and false imprisonment on the judge’s orders.
A Police Constable, identified as Blair, has also been named as a defendant in the action, which was filed on behalf of Dereck Moonsammy, a chauffeur employed by Senior Counsel Bernard De Santos.
In the filings seen by Stabroek News, Moonsammy, through lawyers Glenn Hanoman, Rexford Jackson and Everton Singh-Lammy, has filed a writ of claim against Justice Singh, citing claims of trespass to the person, assault, unlawful arrest, wrongful imprisonment and embarrassment, humiliation and nervous shock that he suffered.