Close X
Sunday, January 12, 2025
ADVT 
International

3 Indians Jailed In Singapore For Consensual Sex With Minor

Darpan News Desk IANS, 21 Feb, 2018 12:19 PM
    Three Indians have been jailed in Singapore for their involvement in consensual sexual acts with a 13-year-old girl in 2016, a media report said on Wednesday.
     
    Gill Gurjant Singh, 25, and Surjeet Singh, 29, were each sentenced to 15 months in prison for the crime, The Straits Times reported.
     
    Jugraj Singh, 33, was jailed for eight months for committing an indecent act on the Singaporean minor.
     
    Offenders convicted of having consensual sexual intercourse with a minor below 14 years old can be jailed for up to 20 years and fined or caned, according to the report.
     
    All the three men are Indian construction workers, the report said.
     
    They had met the girl in May 2016 in Little India, a precinct of shops, eateries, pubs, motels and hotels, where she was hanging out with her friends, Deputy Public Prosecutor Jesintha Veijayaratnam said.
     
    The girl's mother approached the police after which a complaint was registered. 

    MORE International ARTICLES

    Ram Rahim Sentence: 2 Years After Woman Disappeared At Dera, Husband Hopes For Justice

    Ram Rahim Sentence: 2 Years After Woman Disappeared At Dera, Husband Hopes For Justice
    Kamlesh Kumar, a 27-year-old labourer from Jaipur, lost his wife during a family visit to the Sirsa-based Dera in March 2015, according to his lawyer

    Ram Rahim Sentence: 2 Years After Woman Disappeared At Dera, Husband Hopes For Justice

    13-Year-Old Indian-Origin Boy Dhruv Garg Gets Top Score In Mensa IQ

    13-Year-Old Indian-Origin Boy Dhruv Garg Gets Top Score In Mensa IQ
    Dhruv Garg achieved 162 in his entry IQ test - the maximum possible, which places him in the top one per cent of people in the world, a report said.  

    13-Year-Old Indian-Origin Boy Dhruv Garg Gets Top Score In Mensa IQ

    Indira Showed The World What Women Leaders Were Capable Of: Bhutan Queen Mother

    Indira Showed The World What Women Leaders Were Capable Of: Bhutan Queen Mother
    Titled "India's Indira", the book is a collection of essays and reflections on Gandhi by eminent personalities from several quarters of the world. It has been compiled by Indian National Congress and has a foreword by Congess president Sonia Gandhi.

    Indira Showed The World What Women Leaders Were Capable Of: Bhutan Queen Mother

    Uk Holiday Turns Deadly: 5 From Tamilnadu, 2 Keralites Among Eight Killed In Horrific Crash

    Uk Holiday Turns Deadly: 5 From Tamilnadu, 2 Keralites Among Eight Killed In Horrific Crash
    Three Wipro employees were among eight persons killed in a deadly accident on a highway in southern England in which a mini bus got crushed between two trucks.

    Uk Holiday Turns Deadly: 5 From Tamilnadu, 2 Keralites Among Eight Killed In Horrific Crash

    Indian-American Lawmakers Slam Trump's Transgender Military Ban

    Indian-American Lawmakers Slam Trump's Transgender Military Ban
    The presidential memorandum signed on Friday officially requested the Pentagon to develop an implementation plan for the ban by February 21, 2018, to be put in place on March 23, 2018.

    Indian-American Lawmakers Slam Trump's Transgender Military Ban

    Hillary Clinton Stopping In Toronto, Montreal And Vancouver To Promote Her Book 'What Happened'

    Hillary Clinton Stopping In Toronto, Montreal And Vancouver To Promote Her Book 'What Happened'
    Hillary Clinton is stopping in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver to promote her upcoming book "What Happened."

    Hillary Clinton Stopping In Toronto, Montreal And Vancouver To Promote Her Book 'What Happened'