A Curepe man who was caught with non-reg­u­la­tion tint on his ve­hi­cle, has been grant­ed own bail in the sum of $95,000 by a Mas­ter of the High Court, af­ter be­ing charged with two counts of ut­ter­ing a forged doc­u­ment and two counts of pos­ses­sion of forged doc­u­ments.

And the Fraud Squad, which works close­ly along­side the Li­cens­ing Di­vi­sion on such in­ves­ti­ga­tions, is re­mind­ing the pub­lic that al­ter­ing or forg­ing any of­fi­cial doc­u­ment and us­ing such pa­per­work to gain an ad­van­tage, is a crim­i­nal of­fence and will not go un­no­ticed or un­pros­e­cut­ed.

A re­lease from the Po­lice Ser­vice notes that 23-year-old of­fice clerk Kavir Ma­haraj was charged with the of­fences when he ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Shabi­ki Caz­abon, on Mon­day 4 No­vem­ber 2024.

The Suf­fi­cien­cy Hear­ing date was set for Ju­ly 22, 2025,

The ac­cused must re­port to the St. Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion once a month, ac­cord­ing to the terms of his bail.

The Po­lice Ser­vice re­lease re­counts that last Fri­day (No­vem­ber 1, 2024), Li­cens­ing Of­fi­cers were con­duct­ing a road­block ex­er­cise along the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way in the Curepe dis­trict. The of­fi­cers stopped a man dri­ving a Nis­san AD Wag­on for the of­fence of dri­ving a ve­hi­cle with a non-pre­scribed tint.

They re­port­ed­ly asked the dri­ver if he had au­tho­ri­sa­tion from the Li­cens­ing Di­vi­sion for his ve­hi­cle to be tint­ed in such a man­ner, to which he al­leged­ly replied ‘Yes’.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, the sus­pect then al­leged­ly pro­duced two doc­u­ments in his name—a Min­istry of Works and Trans­port Di­vi­sion Ex­emp­tion Cer­tifi­cate and a Tint Win­dow Ex­emp­tion—both pur­port­ed­ly from the Li­cens­ing Di­vi­sion.

The doc­u­ments were ac­cept­ed as gen­uine at first. How­ev­er, on fur­ther ex­am­i­na­tion, they were deemed to be fraud­u­lent.

The man and the ve­hi­cle were es­cort­ed to the Li­cens­ing Of­fice in Ca­roni, and checks con­firmed that the doc­u­ments were in­deed fraud­u­lent.

The TTPS re­ports that the Fraud Squad was con­tact­ed and an in­ves­ti­ga­tion launched.

As a re­sult of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion, PC Khan charged Ma­haraj with the sus­pect four of­fences.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was spear­head­ed by W/Snr. Supt. (Ag.) Phillips; co­or­di­nat­ed by Supt. Lutch­man and ASP (Ag.) David­son; and su­per­vised by In­sp. Fran­cis, Sgt. Toney and Cpl Cum­mings; and in­clud­ed PCs Khan and Belfast.