The Port Mourant land surveyor, Mahendra Mangru, who was picked up in an unconscious state in front of his property on Tuesday, died as a result of a fractured spine due to a blunt trauma, a post-mortem examination revealed yesterday.
Mangru, 44, owner of Mangru’s Associates, and of Lot 292, Block 5, Ankerville, Port Mou-rant, was picked up by police ranks at around 6:45 am on Tuesday, after the suspect in the matter filed a report at the Whim Police Station. The man was taken to the Port Mourant Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The autopsy was performed yesterday by Dr Nehaul Singh at Anthony’s Funeral Home. Commander of Region Six, Calvin Brutus, said yesterday that investigators were seeking advice in order to file charges against the suspect.
On Wednesday, Stabroek News reported that investigators were told that the suspect, who returned a few years ago from overseas, reportedly visited Mangru’s house sometime around 6:15 am on Tuesday to uplift a sum of money allegedly owed to him for some renovation works done on the lower flat of Mangru’s house.
According to a police source, the suspect had claimed, that Mangru refused to pay him since he (Mangru) had said that he was dissatisfied with the work carried out.
However, the suspect then stated that after he informed Mangru that he would contact the police, Mangru then allegedly armed himself with a cutlass and dealt the suspect a chop injury. After which, the suspect then disarmed Mangru and dealt him some injuries, causing him to fall to the ground.
Mangru sustained a suspected bite wound to his right thumb, an abrasion behind the right foot, a swollen left jaw and minor abrasions on to his feet, while the suspect sustained a cut to the left side of his head.
Stabroek News was also told, that after the incident, the suspect went to the Port Mourant Hospital to seek medical attention after which he proceeded to the Whim Police Station to file a report.
It was then that ranks ventured to the scene and picked up Mangru, who was unconscious at that time.
Meanwhile, Mangru’s relatives have strongly denied claims that the suspect worked with him or that Mangru owed the suspect any money.
Mangru’s overseas-based wife, Monica Prasad, also known as ‘Shabna’, 39, had told Stabroek News via telephone, that she was present in Guyana early last month when her husband gave a large sum of cash to the suspect after he promised to secure a business license.
The woman had acknowledged, that indeed they had completed some renovation works on their house to open the business but that was done by another “workman” who her husband hired.
However, according to the woman, her husband had recently demanded that the suspect return his money since he had failed to start the process to secure a business licence.
