After four
years…
Family of
kidnapped taxi driver still hoping
HIS wife, Shakela
Dalchand and their three children, grieving for their loved one since the
disappearnce of taxi driver Khemraj Dalchand, still hope that the kidnap victim
will return home alive after four years.
Kidnapped Khemraj Dalchand, whose corpse was never found.
Bibi Nazim, a
cousin of the disappeared man, told the Guyana Chronicle, on Wednesday, that it
is very difficult for them, not knowing if he is dead.
Dalchand, then
42, of Virginia, East Coast Demerara, was kidnapped on April 24, 2003, in the
vicinity of where he lived while transporting a passenger.
But two days after his abduction, he made a brief telephone call to his wife, pleading with her to raise the sum of money and jewellery demanded as ransom while his motor car was discovered abandoned at Mocha/Arcadia, East Bank Demerara.
Ransom - Jewellery and the amount of $2.5M was dropped at a stipulated place
The cash and jewels were to be delivered at Victoria, also on East
Coast Demerara, according to the kidnappers who contacted his family with the
$5M demand for his safe delivery.
However,
following negotiations, the amount of $2.5M was
dropped at a stipulated place.
Nazim reminded
Wednesday that the family has had more grief because her brother, Lethem
businessman Mohammed Khan was abducted on June 22,
2003 and killed but his corpse was found.
She said
Khan’s son committed suicide, by shooting himself on March 10, 2004, at Lethem
after being depressed over his father’s demise.
Nazim said they wish for a closure with Dalchand, even if only to give his body a proper burial.
Thursday, April 19, 2007