A foreign used car parts dealer was jailed for six months yesterday after he pleaded guilty to fraudulently using a police vehicle's licence plate on his private vehicle. Dalip Rambajan, 46, of Naparima Mayaro Road, Cocoyea, appeared before Magistrate Indira Misir-Gosine in the San Fernando Traffic Court charged with the July 10, 2010, offence. He was also charged with keeping an unregistered vehicle. Cpl Brian Ford laid the charges. When asked where he got the police licence plate, the father of one said: "It was used on a vehicle sold in an auction, a Grand Cherokee."
Police prosecutor Sgt Dianath Haricharan said Rambajan had no previous convictions or pending matters. Misir-Gosine ordered Rambajan to serve six months hard labour on each charge. However, the sentences will run concurrently. Rambajan, stunned by the sentence of imprisonment, began pleading. He told the magistrate there was no one to care for his child and he has a "diabetic" mother who is "very ill." Misir-Gosine told the 46 year-old man: "I have already sentenced you."