Singapore Executes Mentally Challenged Indian-Origin Man In Drugs Case

Singapore Executes Mentally Challenged Indian-Origin Man In Drugs Case

Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, a mentally challenged Indian-foundation Malaysian guy convicted in a drug trafficking case, became performed in Singapore today, his own circle of relatives instructed the media after his mother’s attraction became disregarded through the courtroom docket of attraction on Tuesday.

Dharmalingam, 34, became hanged this morning and his stays may be taken returned to Ipoh, a metropolis in northern Peninsular Malaysia, Bernama News Agency quoted Dharmalingam’s brother Navin Kumar as saying.

He became convicted in 2010 and had exhausted all felony recourse. He became first scheduled to be hanged on November 10 ultimate yr however filed a ultimate-ditch challenge. After his mother’s utility became disregarded, the courtroom docket ordered his demise sentence.

Dharmalingam became convicted and sentenced to demise in November 2010 for uploading 42.seventy two grams of heroin in 2009, while he became stuck at Woodlands Checkpoint (a causeway hyperlink with Peninsular Malaysia) whilst getting into Singapore, with the package of medication strapped to his thigh.

The mother, who got here to the Singapore courtroom docket from the northern Malaysia, failed in her ultimate-minute attraction to keep her son.

“This a ultimate-minute utility, delivered simply days earlier than the scheduled execution, and is the 7th utility (now no longer inclusive of appeals) delivered through Nagaenthran after his attraction towards conviction became disregarded through the Court of Appeal in 2011 greater than 10 years ago,” Singapore’s Attorney General’s Chambers stated today.

“It is the contemporary try to abuse the courtroom docket’s techniques and unjustifiably put off the wearing into impact of the lawful sentence imposed on Nagaenthran,” it stated.

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