Rhon­dor Dowlat-Ros­tant

The body of a Hin­du re­li­gious leader, Pun­dit Kaw­al Singh was found face down at the mouth of a bay in Wa­ter­loo, Cara­pichaima, on Tues­day.

The vic­tim has been iden­ti­fied as Pun­dit Kaw­al Singh, 54, of Mun­gal Trace, Or­ange Field Road in Cara­pichaima.

Po­lice said his ve­hi­cle was found aban­doned along a road in Brick­field by rel­a­tives, who had launched a search for him af­ter they sus­pect­ed that some­thing was not right.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, around 5 pm, Cpl Har­riot and PC Leza­ma re­spond­ed to a re­port of a ve­hi­cle found aban­doned at Bay Road, Brick­field Vil­lage, Wa­ter­loo Cara­pichaima.

The of­fi­cers ob­served a black Nis­san Lau­rel bear­ing the reg­is­tra­tion num­ber PCC 2051 parked at the end of the road with the dri­ver’s door opened.

A close friend of Singh told the po­lice of­fi­cers that, with the help of some of the vil­lagers, they formed a search par­ty and found Singh’s life­less body in the mouth of the bay.

The body was clad in a grey t-shirt and a pair of black three-quar­ter pants with no vis­i­ble marks of vi­o­lence.

The of­fi­cers lat­er met with the pun­dit’s sis­ter, who re­port­ed that she last saw her broth­er alive around 8.30 am Tues­day when he left home to go to the tem­ple for prayers.

With his fail­ure to re­turn home she be­came wor­ried as he was said to be a heart pa­tient and had re­cent­ly un­der­gone a triple by­pass surgery.

Singh’s sis­ter said she made sev­er­al at­tempts to con­tact him.

The body was ex­am­ined by DMO Dr Dhawalaghar who or­dered that the body be re­moved to the San Fer­nan­do Mor­tu­ary.

Singh’s ve­hi­cle was tak­en to the Freeport Po­lice Sta­tion.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.