THE constitutional rights of a senior citizen were breached by the State after it refused to exchange $10,000 in $100 cotton notes for the new polymer currency, even though at the time of the demonitisation exercise she was barred from re-entering this country from abroad during the Covid-19 pandemic.

This finding was made by the High Court on Friday in a constitutional claim brought by 76-year-old Shantee Nanan.

In his judgment, Justice Devindra Rampersad found that the manner in which the former PNM administration handled the late-redemption regime under the Central Bank Act violated Nanan’s rights to due process and the protection of the law.