Controversial Trinidadian Artiste Kashif Sankar Granted Bail on Charges of Being a Gang Member

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Kashif Sankar, the Trinidad artiste known as Kman 6ixx, was granted TT$40,000 bail after he was charged for being a member of a gang.

Kashif Sankar, the Trinibad artiste known as Kman 6ixxA police statement said that officers from the Special Investigations Unit had executed a search warrant at Sankar’s home on February 2 and that during the Sankar and two women  were arrested for the possession of ammunition.

The police statement said that the arrest and charges stem from an “extensive investigation” into videos posted by Sankar on social media since March 2023 “during which time he was observed singing and using expressive gestures in videos that seemingly incited violence and promoted the Sixx gang, accompanied by his alleged self-professed affiliation as a gang member to intimidate the public”.

Sankar was charged with offences under the Anti-Gang Act: Being a gang member; professing to be a gang member.

The two women, Nikita Payne and Aryan Sankar were both granted TT$10,000 bail.

Earlier this month,Tourism Minister Randall Mitchell said that St. Kitts and Nevis had the sovereign right to ban any foreign artists from performing on the twin island Federation after the police there, citing security risks, banned the singer from performing at a show there scheduled for March 2, this year.

On December 27, last year, Sankar was in a vehicle that was targeted by gunmen along the Churchill Roosevelt Highway. Four people, including an elderly woman, were killed during the incident. The woman was an innocent by stander.