Georgetown: Controversial Alliance for Change (AFC) Region five councillor, Abel Seetaram was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison for a felonious wounding charge when he appeared at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.
The offence for which Seetaram is charged carries a maximum sentence of four years imprisonment. However, defence counsel Horatio Edmonson had asked in a plea of mitigation to the Court to exercise mercy and leniency.
The case stemmed from a drunken brawl on January 21, 2018, when Seetaram, 36, of Lot 121 B Woodley Park Village, West Coast Berbice (WCB), injured his cousin, Netram Rabindranauth.
The prosecution had contended that Seetaram feloniously wounded Rabindranauth, 54, a vendor of Lot 64 ‘A’ Woodley Park Village. Seetaram was initially released on $100,000 bail. Seetaram , a councillor representing the Alliance For Change at the Region Five RDC, was arrested after he was said to have used a piece of wood to injure Rabindranauth during an altercation after a drinking spree.
At the scene of the confrontation, Seetaram, who was reportedly intoxicated, was heard shouting and telling persons who had gathered that no one could do him anything, since he knows “Khemraj” and is a “big boy in the Government”.
Rabindranauth’s son had spoken out on social media against the attack on his father, who he said made his living selling chips.
Seetaram who is no stranger to controversy was on May 30, 2016, fired from his post as Special Representative to the Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo.
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