Court cases

Drugs

THE SIX suspects arrested during last week’s drug bust in uMhlanga were each granted R5 000 bail at the Verulam Magistrate’s Court on Monday

The accused are Ganaseelan Nadasen, 42, Brian Radhakishun, 41, Dropathy Samuels, 54, Errol Samuels, 54, Pamela Danaraju, 48, and Rameshnee Radhakishun, 31.

While chants of “No bail, rot in jail!” by members of the DA were heard outside the courthouse, the accused were completing affidavits on why they should get bail.

A prosecutor from the organised crime unit of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions office in KZN suggested the accused each pay bail of R50 000.

However, defence advocate Jimmy Howse asked for the amount to be reduced to R5 000.

The suspects will next appear in court in September. Last month the six were arrested after an investigation by the Hawks and Special Investigating Unit.

This led them to a luxury flat in Equinox Drive near Gateway.

The suspects were allegedly caught redhanded packaging heroin capsules.

The accused face three counts of dealing in 10 000 heroin capsules, 2.5kg of heroin powder, 1 000 ecstasy tablets and 4 000 Mandrax tablets with a street value of R1.2 million. Equipment was also confiscated.

Pitbull

KEVIN Moodley and his co-accused, Nicholas Muzenda and Sifiso David Ntuli, who have been charged with murder, appeared in the Verulam Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.

The trio are accused of stabbing and setting a pitbull on Nevashin Pillay, 30, and Prince Gumede (age unknown) in May.

The disfigured bodies of the victims were discovered in a stream metres away from Moodley’s Northcroft home.

The accused were each granted bail and the case has been adjourned to next month for further investigation.

Fort Napier

SHANVIR Singh, accused of hacking his parents to death and living with their decomposing bodies in their Phoenix home for a week, recently appeared in the Verulam Magistrate’s Court .

Singh, 21, has been remanded in custody until July 20, and will be transferred to Fort Napier Hospital, in Pietermarizburg, for mental observation. He was arrested in February.