Africa-Press – Mauritius. The charred body of a citizen of this country was discovered in a sugar cane field at Telfair, Moka, in October 2020. The case has remained unresolved to this day.
Police investigation initially pointed to a case of suicide, despite the widow’s pained objections, and it is thanks to the persistent efforts of the ‘Avengers’, led by Rama Valayden, that the issue has been kept alive.
Very disturbing practices were thereafter unravelled during the course of a judicial inquiry ordered by the then Director of Public Prosecutions, Satyajit Boolell.
The victim, Soopramanien Kistnen, was the former chief agent of the MSM in Constituency of Moka and Quartier Militaire (No 8) at the 2019 general elections and could be presumed to have some inside information as to its conduct in that constituency where the PM and two of his colleagues were elected.
What the judicial inquiry revealed, if we go by the non-disputed extracts of its report which found its way in the press, was a long list of serious deficiencies in the police investigation into what the inquiry concluded to be a case of cold-blooded murder and the likely motives that would explain the latter.
The inquiry also brought to light the questionable role played by some investigating officers, the strange circumstances in which the autopsy was carried out, the conflicting evidence of expert forensic doctors on the cause of death, the disappearance or unavailability of vital information such as mobile phones, the mystery surrounding the unavailability of Safe City video recordings of the movements of the victim on the fateful day of his assassination, the suspected connections of the murder with the emergency procurement of medical equipments and drugs in 2020.
Furthermore we also learned about the existence of what were thereafter called ‘The Kistnen Papers’ relating to election expenses in that same constituency allegedly in excess of authorised campaign ceilings as prescribed by law.
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