An­na-Lisa Paul

An at­tor­ney em­ployed with the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), who was charged with dri­ving un­der the in­flu­ence (DUI), has been grant­ed $15,000 own bail af­ter she ap­peared in court.

Am­bekha Yanker­ran-Seep­er­sad plead­ed not guilty when she ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Alexan­der Prince at a vir­tu­al hear­ing in the Cou­va Mag­is­trate’s Court on Tues­day.

Yanker­ran-Seep­er­sad, 39, of Cara­pichaima, is cur­rent­ly a le­gal in­tern at WASA.

The court heard that around 4.37 pm on Sep­tem­ber 30, Yanker­ran-Seep­er­sad was in­volved in a traf­fic ac­ci­dent near Ra­madar’s Liquor Mart, Mis­sion Road, Freeport.

It was al­leged that her eyes ap­peared blood­shot, while the re­spond­ing of­fi­cer re­port­ed smelling liquor on her breath and felt she was over the pre­scribed lim­it of 35 mg per every 100 ml of breath.

Yanker­ran-Seep­er­sad was tak­en to the Freeport Po­lice Sta­tion where she lat­er agreed to pro­vide a spec­i­men of breath, which reg­is­tered a read­ing of 168 mg per every 100 ml of breath. A sec­ond breath test ad­min­is­tered at 6.14 pm reg­is­tered 139 mg per every 100 ml of breath; while a third test at 6.21 pm reg­is­tered 152 mg per every 100 ml of breath.

Prince read out the charge of DUI, which was con­trary to Sec­tion 70 A (1) of the Mo­tor Ve­hi­cle and Road Traf­fic Act.

In sub­mit­ting her bail ap­pli­ca­tion, Yanker­ran-Seep­er­sad’s at­tor­ney Bhi­mal Ma­hara­jh re­quest­ed she be re­leased on her own recog­ni­sance, as she had no pri­or con­vic­tions or pend­ing mat­ters.

The mat­ter was ad­journed to Oc­to­ber 28.