PM, AG defer to police on Dabideen investigation

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie have de­clined to com­ment on the po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­volv­ing Act­ing Chief Mag­is­trate Bri­an Dabideen.

Re­spond­ing to ques­tions from Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said, “I would pre­fer to not com­ment on an on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion of this crit­i­cal na­ture.”

She added that the TTPS was han­dling the mat­ter and she was not privy to its de­tails.

Je­re­mie sim­i­lar­ly stat­ed, “This is an on­go­ing po­lice mat­ter and I am not able to com­ment.”

Their re­spons­es fol­low con­fir­ma­tion from Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro that of­fi­cers searched Dabideen’s home and seized items as part of an on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion.—Akash Sama­roo