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The State has been or­dered to pay over $125,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a pair of fish­er­men from Moru­ga, whose boat was seized and de­tained for al­most four years with­out law­ful jus­ti­fi­ca­tion.

Mar­cus Dover and Ra­jesh Lal­too won their law­suit over the seizure, lead­ing to the re­turn of the boat late last year, but the com­pen­sa­tion owed to them was on­ly as­sessed by High Court Mas­ter Wren­er­son Lochan last week.

The duo’s pirogue “Fresh Cash” was seized by po­lice of­fi­cers on No­vem­ber 2, 2021.