KEVON FELMINE

Se­nior Re­porter

kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

Homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors are await­ing le­gal ad­vice from the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions as they con­sid­er charges in the killing of Ce­dros crick­eter and sales mer­chan­dis­er Rashme Deoa­jit.

A 47-year-old man from Her­mitage Vil­lage in San Fer­nan­do was de­tained over the week­end af­ter be­ing picked up by po­lice in Cou­va.

He was sub­se­quent­ly in­ter­viewed by of­fi­cers from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions as en­quiries con­tin­ue in­to the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing Deoa­jit’s death.

Deoa­jit, 28, was dis­cov­ered dead at her home along Tat Trace, Granville, Ce­dros, fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent on March 16.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, Deoa­jit had been at her home ear­li­er that day, where she was lim­ing with the sus­pect, as well as with her fa­ther and broth­er.

Rel­a­tives said the group spent time to­geth­er at the prop­er­ty be­fore Deoa­jit and the sus­pect lat­er left and vis­it­ed an­oth­er near­by home, where they con­tin­ued lim­ing.

Fam­i­ly mem­bers said Deoa­jit was in pos­ses­sion of ap­prox­i­mate­ly $5,000 in cash, which she had in­tend­ed to use for re­pairs to her ve­hi­cle, which was at a garage.

Po­lice were told that around 8 pm, an al­ter­ca­tion de­vel­oped be­tween Deoa­jit and the sus­pect. That ex­change was re­port­ed­ly the last time she was seen alive.

Rel­a­tives said the sus­pect was known to both Deoa­jit and her fam­i­ly and had been stay­ing at her home for a pe­ri­od.

They said ten­sions ap­peared to arise short­ly be­fore her dis­ap­pear­ance, though the ex­act cir­cum­stances re­main un­clear.

The fol­low­ing day, March 17, her fa­ther and broth­er, who live near­by, be­came con­cerned af­ter hear­ing her phone ring­ing re­peat­ed­ly in­side the house. Up­on en­ter­ing the premis­es through a win­dow, her broth­er dis­cov­ered her un­re­spon­sive on a bed.

A post-mortem ex­am­i­na­tion lat­er re­vealed that Deoa­jit had suf­fered trau­ma to the head and had been stran­gled, ac­cord­ing to rel­a­tives.

As the in­ves­ti­ga­tion pro­gressed, of­fi­cers from the Homi­cide Bu­reau con­duct­ed fur­ther en­quiries and sub­se­quent­ly de­tained the sus­pect.

He re­mains in cus­tody as de­tec­tives await di­rec­tions from the DPP on whether charges will be laid.