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AMAN RAVINDRA-SINGH: I can confirm that he has been attacked or he had been attacked on Tuesday of this week between possibly two pm and four pm. So I personally visited him at the hospital. Now what I can pre-ascertain is that this was an attempted murder on Rajneel Singh. Because after he was beaten a plastic bag was tied over his head and fastened with industrial tape while his hands and legs where also tied with industrial tape. From what I gather he had been left to...inaudible... choke and possibly die. So that is why I am concluding that it was an attempted murder. Fortunately for Rajneel Singh, one of his family members returned home to find him in that state.
SALLY ROUND: So where is Mr Singh now and how is he, what is his condition?
ARS: His condition is bad, he has been released from hospital he is back living with family members at this point in a undisclosed location.
SR: Do you have any inkling as to who was behind the attack? Has he said anything to you about what the men were wearing and who they might be?
ARS: He has obviously mentioned a few things it is very difficult for him to even speak with all the trauma that is associated with that particular attack. I have managed to find out a few things and from what he has described there were two persons. There were I think signs of persons wearing Fiji police force attire. And at the scene of the attempted murder when I visited his home there is a jacket which has the Fiji police force insignia but that is what I have been told. Now obviously it could be anyone wearing a jacket.
SR: You say the jacket was left behind in his home?
ARS: Ah yes there is a jacket left behind.
SR: From that incident and it wasn't there before.
ARS: No, it is a Fiji police jacket.
SR: So why would the police be involved in this incident in your view?
ARS: Again this man was tortured by members of the Fiji police force and members of the security forces including the military on or about the 21st of November as far as I am concerned there has been a concerted effort to cover up the persons who are involved in torturing Rajneel Singh. It is not rocket science for the investigators to find out who exactly were behind this incident. See two months away from now it will be a year. And not one single person has been brought to justice or has been charged and brought to the court. Not one single person has been interviewed as a suspect in the incident of torturing, brutally torturing Rajneel Singh. And it is not difficult, Rajneel Singh was picked up outside Ba police station on or about the 21st of November by members of the police force. He was taken in a vehicle which was a police vehicle by four men. He was tied, handcuffed and hooded and taken into the interior of Ba where there were other men who took turns in torturing and brutalising Rajneel Singh. Now this is a serious crime and yet the Fiji police force despite all its assurances, all the rhetoric have not been able to apprehend one single person. In fact as far as I am concerned no one will be brought to justice. And I had predicted this last year and I have maintained that, why because are involving the police force, the military and also the prison people they are all involved in torture. This is an everyday occurrence and here we see an attempted murder taking place. The Fiji police force despite being informed on that very day have yet to take any action in fact they have yet to even visit the scene of the crime.
SR: And this is the latest incident you are referring to?
ARS: Yes this is the latest incident. There was a member of the police force present at the hospital when I visited Rajneel and we all agreed to go and visit the crime scene and halfway through, this man, this police vehicle pulled off and went on a different tangent. So I am very confused as to why the police have not and even I contacted a senior member of police I even sent him a text message after my phone call was not received to say that there has been an attempt to murder Rajneel Singh.
