Less than 24 hours after he went missing, the body of Couva pensioner Ramsaran Maharaj was found yesterday dumped in an old canefield road in Phoenix Park, California, battered and sodomised with a piece of wood.
The gruesome find was made around 10 am by National Gas Company employees who were driving along the company’s Old Office Road on their way to check plant equipment. Maharaj, a retired truck driver of Milton Village, Couva, was lying face down on the lonely road with several wounds to his head.
Couva police and Region III homicide detectives were contacted. Police said Maharaj was last seen entering a black vehicle by relatives around 11 am Tuesday. Villagers said family members were worried last night when he did not return home and they began looking for him.
At his home yesterday, a relative declined to speak and said their home was private property. Although investigators have no motive, they said other relatives would be interviewed. Maharaj’s body was taken to the Forensic Science Centre, St James, for an autopsy.