Contractor in court for assaulting female employee
A city contractor who allegedly beat up his female employee is battling assault charges at the Makadara Law Courts.
Davendra Keshra is accused of assaulting Sharon Beywa at the South B shopping centre in Nairobi contrary to section 251 of the Penal Code.
Mr Keshra is accused of attacking the complainant who is a safety health officer at his company after a disagreement over compensation of an injured employee at the construction site.
Beywa had arrived at the site to find Keshra in an argument with an employee she had escorted to a hospital after he was injured while on duty at the same site.
The worker had been told by medics to take a rest out of work for some time owing to treatment he was undergoing, which the suspect allegedly did not like, because he was paying him despite being out of work.
Keshra summoned her to the point where they were having an argument over claims the employee was demanding.
The accused person was lamenting that he was paying the injured worker who was not working because Beywa had told the worker to ask for payment from him.
Keshra demanded receipts to prove that the injured worker was demanding the exact amount of money that he had spent to commute to hospital after the injury but he and Beywa could not get them because most matatus in Nairobi don’t issue receipts for passengers.
The argument got out of hand and Keshra allegedly started hurling insults at Beywa and the complainant left the scene and went to her office.
While at her office, the accused person stormed in and allegedly punched her on the cheeks.
The suspect grabbed two chairs to hit the complainant but another worker who was close intervened and restrained Keshra from further assaulting Mbeywa.
The complainant later noticed that she was bleeding and the suspect left threatening to sack her.
Beywa sought treatment and continued working until she left the company.
In September 2023, the complainant’s jaw which had healed developed complications and she went to a hospital for further treatment where she was told she had soft tissue injuries that had not healed completely.
She later reported the matter at the South B police station as she continued with treatment and police started investigations into the matter.
Beywa told the police that she feared reporting the matter at the time when the incident happened because she feared for her job. The suspect was later arrested after investigations.
He denied the charges before Principal Magistrate Caroline Mugo of the Makadara Law Courts.
Keshra was released on a cash bail of Sh15, 000.
The case will be mentioned on December 8, 2023, before the hearing starts on April 11, 2024.
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