Four persons have been arrested following a brutal attack carried out on a pensioner and his family by persons who claimed that the pensioner’s son had stolen from them.
As a result of the beating on Sunday morning, the pensioner 72-year-old Deochand Ramsai of 109 Strathspey, East Coast Demerara, is currently hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital Accident and Emergency Unit.
Ramsai, Stabroek News was told is bleeding in his brain and suffered fractured ribs.
Police yesterday said that the four persons arrested are assisting with the investigations in relation to attempted murder and malicious damage to property.
Police investigations revealed that at around 2.45 am on Sunday Taijwattie Bhawanie, Ramsai’s daughter-in-law was awakened by the breaking of windows. She saw four males hurling objects at the house.
She later heard that the attack was revenge by persons who alleged that her brother-in-law had stolen a gold chain belonging to one of them.
The suspects subsequently gained entry to the upper flat where Ramsai and his wife Farida Ramsai reside and proceeded to ransack the home, forcing her and her family to flee the residence, police said. After the suspects fled, Farida returned to her home and saw most of her valuables destroyed. She then proceeded to the upper flat where she found her husband covered in blood with lacerations to his face and body.
At the home yesterday, the house remained ransacked and without windows as those were broken during the ordeal.
Farida told Stabroek News that the police promised to return to the scene and instructed them to not interfere with the area but up to last night no one had turned up.
