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Sunday, July 13, 2025

Man jailed for beating wife

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Sascha Wilson
2363 days ago
20190122
crime

crime

Mee­tra Chaitram will spend the next four years in jail for beat­ing his wife and breach­ing a pro­tec­tion or­der.

The 46-year-old fa­ther of five plead­ed guilty to the charges when he ap­peared in the San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trates’ Court.

Chaitram said he was stressed and frus­trat­ed but his wife said he was an­gry be­cause she got a job.

She told mag­is­trate Ali­cia Chankar that he re­peat­ed­ly ac­cused her of be­ing un­faith­ful. The in­ci­dent took place on Mon­day evening.

Court pros­e­cu­tor Cley­on Seedan said around 5.45 pm, the 35-year-old woman was at her Debe home when Chaitram ac­cused her of be­ing un­faith­ful.

He then dealt her sev­er­al blows about her head and body. She made a re­port at the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion and pro­duced her pro­tec­tion or­der against him dat­ed Ju­ly 2016.

It will ex­pire in six months. She re­ceived med­ical treat­ment at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. Con­sta­ble An­der­son Main­got ar­rest­ed and charged Chaitram with as­sault­ing his wife by beat­ing her and breach­ing the pro­tec­tion or­der.

Asked by the mag­is­trate what the pro­tec­tion or­der meant, Chaitram said he was not to in­ter­fere with or lash her.

He said he and his wife start­ed a job “deal­ing with cup­boards” in No­vem­ber to make some mon­ey for Christ­mas.

How­ev­er, he said this wife found an­oth­er job and left him to do every­thing. “I did not hit her much, “ he said when told that his wife suf­fered vis­i­ble in­juries.

The mag­is­trate told him he was not sup­posed to hit her at all. His wife, who was in court, said she and her son worked with him but they were not paid a salary.

She com­plained that since she got the job he has been curs­ing her and ac­cus­ing her of be­ing in­volved with oth­er men.

The woman could not un­der­stand why he had a prob­lem with her bring­ing in a reg­u­lar in­come. The wife said it was not the first time he beat her.

She said her son got some lash too when he tried to help her. She said her hus­band even pulled out some of her hair.

The mag­is­trate sen­tenced him to 24 months on each charge. The mag­is­trate or­dered that the sen­tences run con­cur­rent­ly.


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