A mat­ter in­volv­ing a po­lice­man ac­cused of slap­ping a civil­ian on the face and false­ly charg­ing him with re­sist­ing ar­rest has been ad­journed to next year. Con­sta­ble Richard Kishore, 36, last as­signed to the St Mar­garet's Po­lice Sta­tion made his first ap­pear­ance in the San?Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trates?Court yes­ter­day where the charges were reread to him.

Kishore, who was grant­ed $60,000 bail at the po­lice sta­tion af­ter his ar­rest, first ap­peared be­fore a Port-of-Spain mag­is­trate last month and the mat­ter was trans­ferred to the San Fer­nan­do Court. The charges stemmed from an in­ci­dent on In­de­pen­dence Day (Au­gust 31) at St Mar­garet's Vil­lage Junc­tion, Clax­ton Bay, which was up­loaded to so­cial net­work sites, show­ing Ter­rance Au­gus­tine, 40, be­ing slapped and tak­en away in a po­lice car.

Au­gus­tine was tak­en to the sta­tion where he was charged with re­sist­ing ar­rest, as­sault­ing PC Kishore and us­ing in­sult­ing lan­guage. He ap­peared be­fore a mag­is­trate and was grant­ed $20,000 bail on those mat­ters. Act­ing Deputy Chief Mag­is­trate Ra­jen­dra Ram­bachan read the charges of mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice and per­vert­ing the course of pub­lic jus­tice to Kishore yes­ter­day.

Act­ing In­sp Kent Ghisyawan of the Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dard Bu­reau who charged Kishore was in court. Asked if he in­tends to get le­gal rep­re­sen­ta­tion, Kishore said, "Yes." The mat­ter was ad­journed to March 2013.