DOCTOR Ashram Bissoondath, the man whose name was called in the San Fernando High Court as the lover of murdered Dr. Chandra Naraynsingh, denies knowing her.

Bissoondath told TnT Mirror that while Dr. Vijay Naraynsingh’s father is his cousin, he does not have a close relationship with the Naraynsingh family.

“Vijay’s grandfather and my mother were brother and sister,” Bissoondath explained.

“But we are not close.

“They live in North and I live in South; we did not grow up together.

“I don’t lime with them.”

Bissoondath, however, said he greets Naraynsingh whenever they meet.

The San Fernando-based doctor told Mirror that he only knew Chandra Naraynsingh from the picture he saw in the newspapers.

“I did not know when Vijay married Chandra Naraynsingh,” the doctor said.

San Fernando businessman Elton Ramasir and Naraynsingh’s third wife, Seeromani Maraj Naraynsingh, were committed to stand trial for the 1994 murder of Chandra Naraynsingh.

They were acquitted last Thursday.

During the trial before Justice Herbert Volney, Shawn Parris, who killed Chandra outside her workplace at Langmore Health Foundation at Palmyra Village, told the court that Ramasir told him Chandra had a relationship with Bissoondath.

But Bissoondath said the claims are unfounded, malicious and evil allegations against him.

“I never had a relationship with Naraynsingh,” he insisted.

“I wish to further note that I was never interviewed by the police or the media in relation to Naraynsingh’s murder.

“Neither was I called to testify in the murder trial at the preliminary hearing at the Magistrates’ Court or in the High Court.”

The doctor further stated that he was prepared to have a lie-detector test to clear his “good name”.

“I am prepared to allow my telephone records to be perused to confirm that I had no association whatsoever with Chandra Naraynsingh,” the doctor stated.

“This is an attempt to sully my good name and image as a family man and person serving the community.”

Bissoondath told Mirror that his wife and people who know him do not believe what they heard from the court.

“People know what I stand for,” Bissoondath said.