Sascha Wil­son 

Se­nior Re­porter 

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt 

A 35-year-old man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a High Court Mas­ter to­day charged with the mur­der of Po­lice Con­sta­ble Kr­ish­na Ba­na­har.   

Homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors re­ceived in­struc­tions from Deputy Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tion Sab­ri­na Jaglal to charge him with mur­der,  pos­ses­sion of a firearm and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion.

The sus­pect of St Rose Street, Gon­za­les Vil­lage, Guapo, was ar­rest­ed hours af­ter 25-year-old Ba­na­har was killed in a shoot­ing in­ci­dent on No­vem­ber 6. Ba­na­har was among oth­er of­fi­cers of the South West­ern Di­vi­sion on an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise.

They went to St Rose Street to ex­e­cute a search war­rant for arms and am­mu­ni­tion at a house. Ba­na­har and the sus­pect’s rel­a­tive Hakim Joseph were fight­ing when the sus­pect shot the of­fi­cer. Ba­na­har’s col­leagues re­turned fire, dis­charg­ing four rounds of am­mu­ni­tion. Joseph was shot and killed.

Ba­na­har had five years of ser­vice and was at­tached to the Siparia CID. He was giv­en a mil­i­tary fu­ner­al which was at­tend­ed by hun­dreds of peo­ple on No­vem­ber 9, in­clud­ing Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher and First and Sec­ond Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers of the TTPS. 

The ser­vice was held at Ba­na­har’s Fyz­abad home while the cre­ma­tion was done at the Shore of Peace at Mos­qui­to Creek, South Oropouche. The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was su­per­vised by Supt Per­sad and Sgt Bridge­mo­han of the Homi­cide Bu­reau Re­gion 3. The in­ves­ti­ga­tor is ASP Ma­haraj.