RALPH BAN­WARIE

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing two more mur­ders, as the toll for the year has crossed 600.

In the first in­ci­dent yes­ter­day, po­lice said fa­ther of three, Robin Sir­joos­ingh, 67, was shot dead at Plan­ta­tion Road, Va­len­cia.

Sir­joos­ingh’s body was found in his blue Nis­san Fron­tier by farm­ers from the area around 9 am. The front doors of the ve­hi­cle were open and farm­ers who were go­ing to their gar­dens saw Sir­joos­ingh.

They ini­tial­ly thought he was sit­ting in his ve­hi­cle re­lax­ing but when they called out to him a few min­utes lat­er and got no re­sponse, they went to in­ves­ti­gate and re­alised he was slumped to the mid­dle of the dash­board and was bleed­ing from a wound to his head.

Sir­joos­ingh re­port­ed­ly oc­cu­pied ten acres of land at Plan­ta­tion Road, Va­len­cia, which he cul­ti­vates with short crops, in­clud­ing let­tuce, toma­toes, wa­ter­mel­on and had em­ployed some vil­lagers to work in his gar­den.

Po­lice re­port­ed that Sir­joos­ingh had some squab­bles with squat­ters in the area about land bound­aries and had made sev­er­al re­ports to the Va­len­cia Po­lice Sta­tion.

They be­lieve this could have been the mo­tive for Sir­joos­ingh’s killing.

A par­ty of of­fi­cers led by Sr Supt Khan and in­clud­ing Ag In­sp Harp­er, Cpl Jupiter, PCs Kennedy Norville, Bones and James vis­it­ed the scene. They were lat­er joined by of­fi­cers at­tached to Arou­ca Homi­cide Bu­reau Re­gion II.

Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Chan­dolu viewed the body and or­dered its re­moval to the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal, pend­ing a post-mortem at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James.

CSIs processed the scene and re­cov­ered sev­er­al spent shells.

Sir­joos­ingh’s body was iden­ti­fied by his son Avinash.

Of­fi­cers at­tached to Arou­ca Homi­cide Bu­reau Re­gion II are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

In the oth­er in­ci­dent, Ch­agua­nas res­i­dent Likhram Pram­lal was stabbed to death by a woman fol­low­ing an ar­gu­ment at his Ch­agua­nas home.

Po­lice said Pram­lal was re­port­ed­ly quar­relling with the woman, who was known to him, over mon­ey at his William Street, En­ter­prise home around 12.30 pm, when she stabbed him once in the chest.

Pram­lal was rushed to the Ch­agua­nas Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty where he was pro­nounced dead.

Po­lice sub­se­quent­ly de­tained the woman.

Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Re­gion III and Ch­agua­nas CID re­spond­ed to the scene and are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.