Resh­ma Ra­goonath

Har­ryper­sad Singh, the man ac­cused of set­ting his wife on fire last month, has been de­nied bail for a sec­ond time. Singh reap­peared be­fore act­ing Deputy Chief Mag­is­trate Ra­jen­dra Ram­bachan yes­ter­day charged with at­tempt­ing to mur­der his com­mon-law wife, An­drea Badree, on March 3.

When the mat­ter was called yes­ter­day Singh's at­tor­ney, Ains­ley Lucky, ap­plied for bail. How­ev­er, court pros­e­cu­tor Ram­dath Phillip ob­ject­ed. He said Badree was list­ed in crit­i­cal con­di­tion. He said she had been moved from the In­ten­sive Care Unit at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal to the Burns Unit.

Singh, 30, of Her­mitage Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do, is ac­cused of set­ting his com­mon-law wife on fire at their home. The mat­ter was ad­journed to April 23 to get an up­date on Badree's con­di­tion.