At­tor­ney Prakash Ra­mad­har has is­sued an ul­ti­ma­tum to Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young, in­sist­ing that the one mil­lion dol­lar ex-gra­tia pay­ment promised to vic­tims of the Paria div­ing tragedy be de­liv­ered with­in one week. Fail­ure to meet this dead­line will re­sult in le­gal ac­tion, he added.

“To­day, with my col­league Ms Saira Lakhan, pres­i­dent of the As­sem­bly of South­ern Lawyers, and her law firm Mag­nus, we have is­sued a let­ter to the Prime Min­is­ter call­ing up­on him, we do not be­lieve that, with­out prod, this cheque would be forth­com­ing.”

Dur­ing a me­dia con­fer­ence at his of­fice in Curepe yes­ter­day, Ra­mad­har, who is rep­re­sent­ing the fam­i­lies of Fyzal Kur­ban and Yusuff Hen­ry, con­firmed that a let­ter was sent to the Prime Min­is­ter urg­ing him to ho­n­our the pay­ment.