Al­though kid­nap vic­tim Maria Dass-Su­per­sad was suc­cess­ful­ly res­cued un­harmed from her kid­nap­pers on Wednes­day night and two sus­pects were held, in­ves­ti­ga­tors are ex­pect­ed to in­ter­view a close male rel­a­tive as their in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue.

Dass-Su­per­sad was too trau­ma­tised when Guardian Me­dia at­tempt­ed to speak to her yes­ter­day. Her hus­band Vikash Su­per­sad, when con­tact­ed, said the fam­i­ly was al­so not ready to com­ment yes­ter­day but promised that a state­ment was be­ing pre­pared for dis­tri­b­u­tion to the me­dia by to­day (Fri­day).

How­ev­er, a rel­a­tive, who wished not to be iden­ti­fied said that af­ter be­ing treat­ed at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex in Mount Hope on Wednes­day night, when Dass-Su­per­sad came home “she was too dis­traught and shak­en up to say any­thing...she just men­tioned that she re­mem­bered walk­ing sev­er­al miles up a moun­tain be­fore she was placed in the house where she was be­ing held cap­tive.”

Dass-Su­per­sad was said to have opt­ed not to go to her Lange Park, Ch­agua­nas home to rest yes­ter­day and in­stead went to Port-of-Spain, where a heav­i­ly armed po­lice of­fi­cer was as­signed to keep guard out­side her apart­ment to en­sure she was com­fort­able and felt safe.

An­oth­er close rel­a­tive of hers thanked God that she was “not harmed in any way or mis­treat­ed while be­ing held cap­tive.”

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith, who was praised by Dass-Su­per­sad’s moth­er, Rad­hi­ca, for his of­fi­cers’ quick work, yes­ter­day said he was pleased at how quick­ly they were able to res­cue her and was glad she was al­so un­harmed.

Grif­fith de­scribed the five-hour op­er­a­tion as a “pow­er­ful in­tel­li­gence gath­er­ing that in­cor­po­rat­ed all the dif­fer­ent arms in the TTPS in­clud­ing the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Team, Spe­cial Branch, In­ter-Agency Task Force and in­tel­li­gence agen­cies led by ACP Ja­cob.”

He said he co­or­di­nat­ed the ef­forts from the Com­mand Cen­tre and then made his way to Cau­ra, “deep in the for­est” for the ac­tu­al ex­trac­tion where two sus­pects were held.

“This is the sixth kid­nap­ping and all were re­turned to their fam­i­lies un­harmed with­out any ran­som be­ing paid,” Grif­fith said.

He, how­ev­er, ex­pressed dis­ap­point­ment at some peo­ple who took to so­cial me­dia to sug­gest the po­lice were af­ford­ing af­flu­ent cit­i­zens bet­ter treat­ment than those of the low­er class who were in sim­i­lar sit­u­a­tions.

“I think it was class­less, it was em­bar­rass­ing that cit­i­zens could try to put an av­enue like this in a sit­u­a­tion like this. The TTPS un­der my com­mand will con­tin­ue to en­sure that each and every cit­i­zen be pro­tect­ed and they would be served by the po­lice ser­vice with pride,” Grif­fith said.

“We do not see pol­i­tics, we do not see race, we do not see eth­nic com­po­si­tion, we pro­vid­ed all the re­sources that we could have for those five hours and yet again we were able to do what many peo­ple did not think that we would have achieved.

“I am not say­ing that we would be suc­cess­ful in each and every op­er­a­tion but what we will do is try our best at all times and we would do what is re­quired to bring this coun­try back to what it should be.”

Dass-Su­per­sad, who is cur­rent­ly as­signed to The UWI’s In­sti­tute of In­ter­na­tion­al Ad­vance­ment, was said to be on her way to pick up her six-year-old daugh­ter when she was kid­napped near the uni­ver­si­ty’s North Gate at about 3.07 pm Wednes­day. Her car was blocked by a Nis­san Ti­i­da, li­cense num­ber PDK 9561, and two men, one dressed in a po­lice out­fit the oth­er in a cam­ou­flage out­fit, got out, grabbed her and bun­dled her in­to their car. The men then shot at stu­dents and the se­cu­ri­ty guard on du­ty at the north en­trance as they es­caped. The li­cense plate num­ber was lat­er dis­cov­ered to be false, the po­lice con­firmed.

The two sus­pects, who were ar­rest­ed, are said to be in their ear­ly 20s and from Diego Mar­tin. Up to last night they were still in po­lice cus­tody un­der­go­ing in­ter­ro­ga­tion.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.