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A po­lice con­sta­ble ac­cused of mur­der has been giv­en the green light to pur­sue a law­suit over a de­ci­sion by the po­lice to charge him for am­mu­ni­tion pos­ses­sion un­der the Firearms Act af­ter he was ar­rest­ed and de­tained un­der Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions for the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency.

On Mon­day, High Court Judge Devin­dra Ram­per­sad grant­ed PC Ja­son Bee­tam leave to pur­sue his ju­di­cial re­view case over the tech­ni­cal le­gal is­sue.

Ac­cord­ing to his court fil­ings, ob­tained by Guardian Me­dia, in ear­ly No­vem­ber, Bee­tam, of Tem­ple Street, Beau­car­ro Road, Freeport, was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the kid­nap­ping and mur­der of live­stock farmer Vish­nu Lal­la.