An Adelphi Village, East Canje Berbice man was last week remanded to prison after he was charged with the attempted murder of his mother.
Totaram Lalta, 35, is accused of beating his mother, Gagnarine Lalta, 77, resulting in her being admitted at the Georgetown Public Hospital in a critical condition.
Totaram, of Lot 15 Adelphi Village, East Canje Berbice, appeared before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh last Monday at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court, where he was charged with the offence.
It is the police’s case that Totaram beat the elderly woman after she refused to give him money to purchase cigarettes. The man reportedly returned home in an intoxicated state on the day in question and requested money from his mother to purchase cigarettes. During the assault that followed her refusal, the woman fell and hit her head on a concrete floor. She was picked up and rushed to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital and later transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital in a critical condition.
Lalta was remanded to prison and is to return to court on November 27th, when the matter will be called at the Reliance Magistrate’s Court.
