Kenyan
business tycoon, Raj Devani has been charged with assaulting his mother and is
to appear in court on Thursday, March 2 for bail ruling.
Devani was
arrested on Tuesday and arraigned in court on Wednesday. He denied charges of
assault and causing bodily harm before Kiambu Magistrate, Stella Atambo. Raj was accused
of attacking his 66-year-old mother, Bambi Devani, on the night of February 28
at their home in Runda.
The
prosecution, led by Diana Orago, urged the court not to grant the businessman
bail since he has other cases. “The accused has failed the tests of attending
court sessions. Two other courts in Milimani and Narok have issued warrants
[for his arrest],” said Orago.
The charge
sheet read “On February 28, 2017 at around 9.40pm at Runda within Nairobi
County, he willingly and unlawfully assaulted Bambi Harikrishna Devani thereby
occasioning her actual bodily harm,”
In 2014, Raj
was arraigned before a Milimani Magistrate Court over allegations of firing a
gun in public. In 2012, a security guard, Enock Bikeri had accused Devani of
assault saying the businessman threatened him with a gun but later withdrew his
complaint.
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