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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Woman, 64, beaten on the head and robbed

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Shastri Boodan
221 days ago
20241211
Councillor Sundar Jookoo chats with robbery victim Shanti Karpat at her home yesterday.

Councillor Sundar Jookoo chats with robbery victim Shanti Karpat at her home yesterday.

SHASTRI BOODAN

A 64-year-old woman is fear­ful for her life af­ter she was beat­en and robbed on Mon­day.

Sun­dar Jookoo, the lo­cal gov­ern­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Fe­lic­i­ty on the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion, vis­it­ed Shan­ti Karpat at her home and place of busi­ness yes­ter­day.

Jookoo said he was ap­palled to see the woman’s in­juries and to know the or­deal she faced.

Karpat, who op­er­ates a bar at Nolan Street, was robbed around mid­day.

She told po­lice two men walked in­to the bar and point­ed a gun at her. Be­fore she could even re­sist, one of the men be­gan beat­ing her about the head with the pis­tol be­fore leav­ing with cash and valu­ables.

Jookoo said, “Ms Karpat is a mem­ber of the com­mu­ni­ty, she is an el­der­ly per­son. We are see­ing more bold faced and brazen day light rob­beries tak­ing place.”

Jookoo called for more po­lice pa­trols in the area. - Shas­tri Boodan


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