An East Canje, Berbice pandit is hospitalized after he was stabbed twice by his father during a confrontation at their Good Bananen Land home on Sunday.
The injured man has been identified as 40-year-old Arun Maharaj, also known as Pandit Seiko.
The News Desk understands that Maharaj was out drinking when he returned home around 19:00 hrs to collect a hammock before heading to work. It was at that point that his father reportedly attacked him with a knife.
Speaking with The News Desk, Maharaj admitted that he had consumed “a couple of beers” earlier that day. He recounted that he was on the veranda retrieving the hammock when his father confronted him and dealt him one stab wound to the neck and another to the abdomen.
“So when I walk and go outside now, I notice blood leaking out here,” he said, pointing to his stomach. “My small sister does live in the same yard, so me call she and tell she look what daddy do me here, and she and her husband rushed me to the hospital.”
Maharaj explained that while he and his father have had frequent misunderstandings, they had never become physical before.
“A few days before, he said he was going to set for me because he get some sharpen tools outside in the little pen thing he got outside,” he recalled. “But I didn’t take the threat for anything because no matter the misunderstanding, it never get physical, it does always solve and done.”
No arrests have been made so far, but investigations are ongoing.
