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Of­fi­cers of the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit (AKU) have un­til 4 pm to­day to for­mal­ly charge or re­lease a den­tist who was ar­rest­ed last week, af­ter he was sus­pect­ed of re­ceiv­ing a ran­som pay­ment con­nect­ed to the kid­nap­ping of Jankie Satie Karim.

The habeas cor­pus ap­pli­ca­tion, which was filed in the High Court yes­ter­day by at­tor­neys Shi­va Boodoo and Rosh­ni Balka­ran, was heard by Jus­tice Car­ol Gob­in, who in­struct­ed the AKU of­fi­cers to act ei­ther way.

She al­so or­dered the of­fi­cers to re­lo­cate the den­tist from the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion to an­oth­er lo­ca­tion, on the premise that he was be­ing sub­ject­ed to “in­hu­mane con­di­tions.”