After being beaten and forced to watch his fianc�e and employees hogtied by gunmen, Point Fortin businessman Rajendra Bisram was shoved into his own pickup and carted away.For most of Wednesday night and yesterday, the national security helicopter circled the areas near his Maharaj Trace, Cap-de-Ville, hardware store and home but up to late yesterday, he could not be found.
Even more troubling for police and his family was that his abductors had not yet demanded a ransom.
The investigating party, including ASP Jagroop, Sgt Corrie, Sgt Jones and Cpl Prince, is exploring several leads but said they could not reveal them. They reported that around 10 pm Wednesday, Bisram was in the hardware with his fianc�e Daniella Williams, an employee and a technician, when a gunman, wearing a jersey concealing his face, ran out from behind a forklift and ordered them lie on the floor.Bisram's son, Kareem, said they were installing an electrical panel for a generator when they were ambushed by the gunman, who kicked his father.
Four other men then came up from the river bank behind the building, took them into the apartment on the same compound and tied them together with straps.They then ordered Bisram to hand over the keys to his black Toyota Hilux Vigo, forced him into the back seat and drove off.Kareem said: "They took him and we don't know where they went from here."We have not received any information or calls about him. We were never robbed before but earlier in my years, I was almost kidnapped."About four or five years ago, I was walking down the street when a car came in and they tried to stick me up but I ran."
He said he did not know if his previous experience was related to his father's kidnapping and said no threats were made against his father's life and no one knew the reason behind the kidnapping."My family is real devastated right now. My grandmother almost caught a heart attack."We are now setting up this business, trying to manufacture and sell hardware stuff. We have been doing business two-and-a-half to three years now and this is all he used to do," he added.