PUBLIC Services Association (PSA) President Watson Duke is considering joining in a constitutional challenge against Trinidad and Tobago’s colonial-drafted sedition legislation filed by Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS) secretary general Satnarayan Maharaj.
He revealed this while speaking to reporters outside the Port-of-Spain Magistrate’s Court on Friday when he was placed on $250,000 bail with a surety after being charged with sedition.
Duke said his lawyer John Heath will have to decide whether to join in Maharaj’s constitutional motion or file his own case against the state.
Maharaj filed the lawsuit more than two months ago following the police search of the Central Broadcasting Service, which airs his Maha Sabha Strikes Back programme, in Tunapuna.
Police executed the warrant after Maharaj made statements on his programme claiming that people in Tobago were lazy and the men were rapists.
After his statements, Duke, a Tobagonian, also criticised Maharaj calling on him to apologise.
There was second warrant executed on media house but Maharaj has not be charge with sedition.
Maharaj’s case is being heard by Justice Frank Seepersad who recently ruled that the police give the Maharaj a copy of the warrant which was executed on his media house.
