Director of Public Prosecutions Shalimar Ali-Hack yesterday said the public will be notified at an appropriate time on her office’s legal advice on the rape allegation against Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Nigel Dharamlall.
Ali-Hack, who was approached by the Sunday Stabroek on the sidelines of a Caribbean Court of Justice public lecture said that she would not comment on her office’s work. When asked how soon the advice can be expected, she said at the “appropriate time” a statement will be issued. The DPP received the Dharamlall file on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Leader of the Alliance for Change, Khemraj Ramjattan says that Dharamlall, should have been charged and remanded to prison by now.
According to Ramjattan, given the gravity of the matter, along with the facts provided in the case, Dharamlall should have been charged already.
“The evidence is there. He should have been charged already and remanded. If the girl now went back to her original statement which we all saw on the social media of being raped and sodomized and all that. Any other client would have been charged and have no bail by the magistrate at this time, but I suppose he name Dharamlall, this government, they give privileges, I suppose. It’s an element of privileges”, Ramjattan told the Sunday Stabroek.
