THE CYPRIOT wife of a 42-year-old Indian man who was yesterday remanded in four-day custody on suspicion of kidnapping and assaulting a fellow national has expressed her fury with police for detaining her husband.
The woman told the arresting officer that her husband had kidnapped no one but had simply apprehended a suspect on their behalf, who he delivered to their doorstep and instead of arresting the man responsible for an attack on their property they had arrested her husband.
“Instead of arresting a man who has three cases against him you let him go. And you [the court] say that my husband is going to leave the country when he has kids and they were crying all day yesterday,” the woman said.
The court heard that during the early hours of Tuesday morning the 42-year-old suspect and his wife told police that someone had damaged their two cars.
Initially neither one told police the name of the person they suspected to be behind the attack on their vehicles, the court heard. It later emerged that the couple blamed another Indian man with whom the 42-year-old had had differences for the past three months.
“On the same day, the suspect with nine other individuals visited the man [believed to have damaged the car] at his Aglandjia home,” Officer Stelios Polydorou told the court.
The policeman said the small group allegedly knocked on the man’s door which was opened by his wife. Although the woman refused to let them in, someone allegedly pushed her aside and the group marched into the house and woke her husband, Jagdeep Singh, who was still asleep at the time.
The court heard that the suspect and his friends started to question Singh about the damage to the 42-year-old’s cars while hitting him. The small group then allegedly marched Singh towards his front door and forced him into a car against his will and drove him to Omorfita police station, all the while allegedly hitting him while he sat in the backseat.
The court heard that Singh named the suspect and two other men as his attackers. Police are still looking for the remaining two men.
Meanwhile, Polydorou said Singh had been released because there had been no evidence to suggest that he had been behind the attack on the 42-year-old’s cars.
“We spoke to a neighbour who was called in to identify him as the person behind the attack and he could not be identified so he was released,” said Polydorou.
The officer initially asked for the 42-year-old’s eight-day remand but this was seen as excessive by the judge who ordered his four day remand.
The 42-year-old suspect has been married and living in Cyprus for 20 years. He has Cypriot nationality and has two children, aged 15 and 12.
