A 31-year-old man from Ch­agua­nas has been grant­ed $200,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with kid­nap­ping, rob­bing, chok­ing and rap­ing his for­mer com­mon-law wife.

The man, who can­not be iden­ti­fied to pro­tect the iden­ti­ty of the vic­tim, was grant­ed bail when he ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly be­fore Mag­is­trate In­dar Ja­groo yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to the sum­ma­ry of ev­i­dence in the case, the in­ci­dent oc­curred last Fri­day af­ter the man took the vic­tim to col­lect her cell­phone, which she for­got in a taxi. Af­ter re­triev­ing the cell­phone, the vic­tim asked to be dropped off at Chase Vil­lage Junc­tion in Ch­agua­nas. How­ev­er, as she was get­ting out of the car, the man grabbed hold of her hand­bag and pulled her back in­side. The man then took her to an apart­ment in the com­mu­ni­ty where he at­tacked her and robbed her of $4,260 in cash, two watch­es and a gold chain.

The vic­tim stayed locked in the apart­ment overnight and on­ly man­aged to es­cape around mid­day the fol­low­ing day. She then re­port­ed the in­ci­dent to the po­lice.

In pre­sent­ing a bail ap­pli­ca­tion for the man, his lawyer, Bhi­mal Ma­hara­jh, claimed that his client, a con­struc­tion labour­er, was in­volved in a se­ri­ous car ac­ci­dent in 2008. Ma­hara­jh claimed that his client suf­fered a frac­tured col­lar bone and punc­tured lung in the ac­ci­dent and still ex­pe­ri­ences pain and dif­fi­cul­ty when breath­ing. He al­so not­ed that his client is to be pre­sumed in­no­cent un­til proven guilty.

In grant­i­ng bail, Mag­is­trate Ja­groo gave the man a cash al­ter­na­tive of $20,000. The man was or­dered to have no con­tact with the vic­tim and to re­port to his near­est po­lice sta­tion twice week­ly for the du­ra­tion of his case. The man is sched­uled to reap­pear in court on Sep­tem­ber 22.