DPP backs down as Gungadin walks free on bail
Sergeant Jayesh Gungadin walked out on bail on Friday, but only after a whiplash day. A Port Louis magistrate had granted him conditional release on Thursday in the Rs 94 million cannabis case, ruling that police never showed a real risk he would tamper with the investigation.
The DPP moved at once to freeze that order and take it to the Supreme Court. By Friday the office had dropped the challenge, and Gungadin met his conditions: two sureties of Rs 100,000, a Rs 500,000 bond, a daily police check and a ban on contacting witnesses. He faces a provisional charge of obstructing justice.
Bail granted, frozen, then un-frozen inside a day: the paperwork is moving faster than the case.
Missing pages disrupt a Queen Elizabeth College mock exam
How do you rehearse for the big one when the rehearsal falls apart? Grade 13 pupils at Queen Elizabeth College say their Accounting AS Level mock, a dry run for October's Higher School Certificate exams, came with pages missing and no setter in the room.
Replacements took about ten minutes to print, and corrections were read out as it ran, forcing repeated stops. The Education Ministry has opened an inquiry. For pupils counting down the months, a shaky rehearsal is the last thing they needed.
CEB's own technicians arrested over an extortion racket
Police arrested two Central Electricity Board line technicians over an alleged fraud and extortion racket targeting a single resident. Mohammad Jalal Ud Dhin Mohabeer, 33, and Steward Boudeuse, 39, are both CEB employees. This time the badges were real.
State steps in at an SOS children's home after failings
The state has ordered corrective measures at SOS Children's Village in Bambous after inspections flagged several failings in how the home is run. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family Welfare is also pursuing a wider probe. For a home whose whole job is caring for children with no one else, management failings is exactly the label you never want.
Shorts
Rs 13M drug haul seized in Saint-Pierre – Narcotics officers seized the haul at a home in the south and held one man.
Parapen's promise remarks draw backlash – The MP's take on Alliance du Changement's election pledges drew heavy fire online.
Woman, 33, electrocuted in her shower – Laura Christelle Sooklall died at home on Wednesday evening while she was bathing.
Saint-Hubert protests its missing buses – Residents rallied at the Assembly over scarce buses; officials say no one complained since March.
Henrietta burglar held six months later – Louis Rivelino Mansson, 42, was arrested at Flacq over the Henrietta break-in.
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