THE Appeal Court has overturned a High Court ruling and found that a Barrackpore landlord had unlawfully detained two secondary school students after confronting them in a bathroom on his property.

In a judgment delivered on Friday, Justices of Appeal Mark Mohammed, Maria Wilson and James Aboud ruled that the landlord, Krishen Basdeo, falsely imprisoned the teenagers and committed a battery against one of them. The court ordered Basdeo to pay damages totalling $55,000.

The case stemmed from a video recorded in October 2018 and circulated online showing two students of Barrackpore East Secondary School being confronted and filmed inside a bathroom at a commercial compound in Barrackpore.