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Thursday, July 10, 2025

DPP: Decision soon in Sharma assault case

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Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic?Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard said yes­ter­day a de­ci­sion in the crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion against Fyz­abad MP Chan­dresh Shar­ma was im­mi­nent. Shar­ma has been at the cen­tre of an as­sault probe by the po­lice af­ter com­plaints were made by his one-time com­pan­ion, busi­ness­woman Sacha Singh. In a tele­phone in­ter­view, Gas­pard was asked about the sit­u­a­tion fol­low­ing cer­tain so­cial me­dia claims in cir­cu­la­tion last Sun­day that "the DPP's of­fice" had in­di­cat­ed Shar­ma "has no case to an­swer" re­gard­ing the al­leged al­ter­ca­tion. The so­cial me­dia re­ports al­so not­ed ru­mours Shar­ma and?Singh were "on-again, off-again love­birds" and were now "back to­geth­er."

Yes­ter­day Gas­pard said no de­ci­sion was yet made but he added that one would be made on the mat­ter "very, very soon." Sev­er­al months ago, Singh, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of AMS Biotech Se­cu­ri­ty Con­cepts, of Pi­ar­co Plaza, had filed a com­plaint with St Joseph po­lice al­leg­ing Shar­ma hit her while they were seat­ed in a car at Grand Bazaar, Val­sayn, on March 12. The in­ci­dent was wit­nessed by school­teacher Gee­ta Ma­haraj, who was al­so in the car with a child. Shar­ma re­signed as Tourism Min­is­ter when the is­sue came to light and since then has oc­cu­pied a back bench seat in Par­lia­ment.

Singh had said a woman and a child were in the back seat of her car and Singh had asked Shar­ma about main­tain­ing the child. She claimed the woman and Shar­ma sub­se­quent­ly ar­gued and there was a scuf­fle dur­ing which Shar­ma urged the woman to stop hit­ting a "Brah­min boy". Singh claimed she was sub­se­quent­ly hit and pushed when she held on to Shar­ma's tie. She gave a state­ment to po­lice on it as did the child's moth­er and Shar­ma. Singh said then she was press­ing charges. Yes­ter­day Singh said she had no in­ten­tion of drop­ping the charges and dis­missed what she termed "dirty tricks" be­ing per­pe­trat­ed against her on Face­book and oth­er so­cial me­dia sites in­sin­u­at­ing that she and Shar­ma were back to­geth­er.

She said: "That is def­i­nite­ly un­true. I do not see him. One am­i­ca­ble con­ver­sa­tion we had, which had noth­ing to do with any ap­peals, does not con­sti­tute a rec­on­cil­i­a­tion. "I have spo­ken to my lawyer to­day about the ru­mour-mon­ger­ing on so­cial me­dia that is go­ing on and they have al­so spo­ken to the DPP?on the sta­tus of the is­sue be­fore him. They have learnt in­ves­ti­ga­tions are still on-go­ing. "My le­gal ad­vice is that peo­ple may be spread­ing false ru­mours that Shar­ma and I are back to­geth­er again to per­pet­u­ate the view that there is no case and I?have dropped the mat­ter. "But I haven't dropped any­thing. Peo­ple have al­so been ask­ing me if he and I were in Mi­a­mi last week. I was in Mi­a­mi but not with him. I?want to make that clear."

Singh said the al­ter­ca­tion oc­curred af­ter the moth­er of the child in the car with her had come to her ap­peal­ing for help since it seemed she was in good stand­ing with Shar­ma.

She said the child in­volved in that par­tic­u­lar is­sue was 12 years old. "The DPP has suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence from me. Why would I sub­ject my­self to pub­lic scruti­ny if the sit­u­a­tion wasn't true. How­ev­er, I await word, and no, I am nev­er go­ing back." Con­tact­ed yes­ter­day, Shar­ma said he was in a meet­ing.


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