RHON­DOR DOWLAT 

Three of­fi­cers from the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion re­main in cus­tody as part of an on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the al­leged kid­nap­ping for ran­som of a used car deal­er from Cunu­pia.

The ar­rests, made by of­fi­cers from the Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau and the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit yes­ter­day, came af­ter a po­lice ve­hi­cle sus­pect­ed of be­ing in­volved in the crime was im­pound­ed the day be­fore.

Two of the three of­fi­cers in ques­tion are from the Ca­roni Po­lice Sta­tion. One out of the three of­fi­cers is cur­rent­ly as­sist­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tors in lo­cat­ing the miss­ing vic­tim, Sachel Kunge­be­har­ry.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice sources, Kunge­be­har­ry was al­leged­ly ab­duct­ed on Sep­tem­ber 25, when the car he was trav­el­ling in was stopped by a marked po­lice ve­hi­cle with flash­ing blue lights at 5 pm. Three men, two dressed in tac­ti­cal po­lice uni­forms, forced Kunge­be­har­ry in­to the po­lice ve­hi­cle, while two oth­ers ac­com­pa­ny­ing him were left un­harmed.

It is al­leged that a ran­som of $500,000 was paid for Kunge­be­har­ry’s re­lease on Sep­tem­ber 29, but he re­mains miss­ing.

Po­lice of­fi­cers with­in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion have re­mained tight-lipped over the in­ci­dent. How­ev­er, oth­er of­fi­cers have ex­pressed con­cern over the al­le­ga­tions, say­ing if it is true, more dam­age will be done to the TTPS in terms of pub­lic trust.

Po­lice sources close to the in­ves­ti­ga­tion said in­ves­ti­gat­ing of­fi­cers are work­ing fever­ish­ly to lo­cate the busi­ness­man and con­firmed that “in­ves­ti­ga­tors are work­ing on sev­er­al leads which may re­sult in a fur­ther break­through soon.”

When con­tact­ed on the is­sue yes­ter­day, Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty head David West said they would in­ves­ti­gate the mat­ter but they first have to get the facts.