Resh­ma Ra­goonath

State pros­e­cu­tor George Bus­by has been ap­point­ed to lead the pros­e­cu­tion's case against a po­lice sergeant and five con­sta­bles charged with three counts of mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice. The charges stemmed from an al­leged taser gun at­tack on Tu­na­puna broth­ers, Ri­car­do and Randy Youk-See, 28, and 21, re­spec­tive­ly, and their 18-year-old neigh­bour Ka­iron Bap­tiste in 2010.

Sgt Ra­sool Balka­ran and Con­sta­bles Ve­da Per­sad, Sam­lal Seep­er­sad, El­ton Charlerie, Ramesh Boodram and Lyn­don Ho­sein reap­peared be­fore Ch­agua­nas mag­is­trate Gillian Scot­land yes­ter­day, charged with the March 11, 2010, of­fences. State at­tor­ney Hema Sun­dars­ingh, who ap­peared in the mat­ter, in­formed Scot­land that Bus­by would be pros­e­cut­ing and asked for an ad­journ­ment. De­fence at­tor­ney?Is­rael Khan, SC, who rep­re­sents the of­fi­cers, was not in court yes­ter­day.

The mat­ter was ad­journed to Jan­u­ary 9. Per­sad, a fa­ther of two, with 16 years' ser­vice; Seep­er­sad, a fa­ther of two; Boodram, 29, of Mamoral; Balka­ran, fa­ther of two, with 14 years' ser­vice; Charlerie, of Ari­ma, a fa­ther of two; and Ho­sein, with 25 com­men­da­tions to his name and nine years' ser­vice, are joint­ly charged with three counts of mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice by as­sault­ing the Youk-See broth­ers and Bap­tiste, oc­ca­sion­ing ac­tu­al bod­i­ly harm.

The of­fi­cers are on $75,000 sure­ty bail. The three vic­tims claimed they were beat­en, tor­tured and threat­ened on March 11, 2010, at the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion. They al­leged that they were kicked and hit with a golf stick and were shocked with a taser gun.