During the appeal of the case against the Kalpoes, the removal of their privileges was also dealt with
DIARIO Aruba
12/05/2007

ORANJESTAD(AAN): The appeal of the case that the Public Ministry undertook against the Curacao judge’s decision to set Deepak and Satish Kalpoe free took place Wednesday morning.

Friday of last week, the judge found that there wasn’t enough new evidence to prolong the detention of the brothers, who are suspected of being involved in the death and disappearance of the young American, Natalee Holloway.

On Saturday afternoon they were set free, but now the Public Ministry indicates that they would appeal the judge’s decision.

Tuesday morning, the case, which was closed to the press, started at around 10:30 in the morning and after a short noontime pause, the case continued for one hour.

During the case, the prosecutor tried to show the judge that they have sufficient reason to put the Kalpoe brothers back in detention. During the treatment of the case, they also dealt with the issue of removal of the suspects’ privileges during their detention, such as the prohibition to read newspapers, watch television or receive visits from family and friends.

Given that the brothers are no longer locked up, this could be considered irrelevant, however the lawyers asked that this be dealt with and the judge agreed, in case the decision of the Hof is to put the suspects back in detention.

In the course of today [Wednesday], the judge will send his decision to the two parties of this case, to the lawyers.

As to Joran van der Sloot, there are big indications that today the judge will also take a decision whether his detention will be prolonged for 60 days or not. This, given that the period of his preventive detention ends Thursday.

[translated by Getagrip]