Police charge Indian director

Mr Jakdish Lakhiani, an Indian Director of Blowplast Industries in Accra, who allegedly assaulted a worker of the company, would be arraigned on Tuesday, the Police disclosed on Monday.

Lakhiani allegedly slapped and kicked Mr John Antwi, a 27-year old staff of the company in the lower abdomen and the groin.

The Police source said after a careful study of the docket enough evidence of assault has been established against the Director.

The sources said the medical report indicated that Mr Antwi was suffering from ''contusion of the left cheek, hyperaemia of the left eardrum, contusion in the scrotum and the groin and pain in the penis when urinating''.

An Accra daily on Wednesday reported that on August 20 Lakhiani attacked Antwi, when he saw him packing finished polythene products at what he described as ''an undesignated place of the factory''.

Lakhiani suspected Antwi of trying to steal the products hence the alleged attack. He denied assaulting Antwi, saying he ''playfully knocked his head''.

In another development, Lakhiani told Joy FM today that the reporter who filed the earlier story for the Ghanaian Times had attempted to blackmail him, alleging that he demanded five million cedis as a condition to kill the story but he refused to pay.

He also said he had a tape recording of his encounter with the reporter.