Close X
Thursday, September 19, 2024
ADVT 
International

Indian-origin man gets jail, caning for role in alleged stabbing in Singapore

Darpan News Desk IANS, 11 Jul, 2023 10:30 AM
  • Indian-origin man gets jail, caning for role in alleged stabbing in Singapore

Singapore, July 11 (IANS) A 29-year-old Indian-origin recalcitrant offender in Singapore was sentenced to more than 17 months in prison on Tuesday for possessing and handing over a weapon, which was allegedly used to stab a man in 2022.

S. Mageshwaran, who was out on bail, was also awarded 12 strokes of the cane, after he pleaded guilty to multiple crimes including harassment, being in possession of the harpoon and traffic offences, The Straits Times reported.

According to court documents, Mageshwaran had a 20 cm tactical harpoon with him which he handed over to his accomplice Sheran Raj Balasubramaniam, who then allegedly used it to stab a 23-year-old man.

The two were charged with voluntarily causing hurt with common intention in 2022.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Melissa Heng said Mageshwaran was convicted of being in possession of a dangerous weapon in 2019 for which he was later sentenced to more than three years in jail and was released in 2020. On November 30, 2020, while being under a remission order, a drunk Mageshwaran used vulgar language against a policeman in Dunlop Street in Little India for which he was arrested and later released on bail.

On June 3, 2022, Sheran asked him to bring along a weapon as they planned to go to Candy Bar at Cuscaden Road.

Heng said that in the taxi on the way to Candy Bar, Mageshwaran handed the tactical harpoon to Sheran, who then stabbed a man later outside the bar.

“Thereafter, at about 4.30am outside Candy Bar, the co-accused stabbed (a man) using the tactical harpoon,” Heng was cited as saying in The Times.

Police said the victim was found bleeding profusely with the weapon stuck in his back. He was rushed to the hospital and is now in a stable condition.

Mageshwaran and Sheran, who had fled the scene, were identified through investigations and surveillance footage.

Mageshwaran also committed traffic offences including driving a car without a licence in Yishun in September 2021, The Times reported.

According to his defence lawyer, Mageshwaran has major depressive disorder, and his failure to exercise consequential thinking during the traffic offences was due to his relationship issues, The Times reported.

The lawyer further said that Mageshwaran had no knowledge that Sheran would use the harpoon to attack the 23-year-old in Cuscaden Road.

While Sheran's case is still pending, offenders can be jailed for up to seven years, fined, and caned for voluntarily causing hurt with a dangerous weapon.

MORE International ARTICLES

UK Parliament watchdog opens investigation into PM Rishi Sunak

UK Parliament watchdog opens investigation into PM Rishi Sunak
Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, is listed as a shareholder in Koru Kids, which is among six private childcare providers likely to benefit from a pilot scheme proposed in last month's budget to incentivise people to become childminders, with 1,200 pounds offered to those who train through the agency, The Guardian reported.

UK Parliament watchdog opens investigation into PM Rishi Sunak

UK Sikh temple warns after Indians lured with fake visas, job offers

UK Sikh temple warns after Indians lured with fake visas, job offers
The Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara in Gravesend placed warnings on its social media pages after they were alerted to fake advertisements titled, "urgently needed in the UK", offering free food and travel tickets for job opportunities at the Sikh temple, the Kent Online reported.

UK Sikh temple warns after Indians lured with fake visas, job offers

Raj Neervannan co founded AlphaSense raises $100 mn, bullish on India

Raj Neervannan co founded AlphaSense raises $100 mn, bullish on India
Neervannan has an MBA in finance from The Wharton School in the US, and a BE in computer science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 1,000 people across offices in the US, the UK, Finland, Germany, and India.

Raj Neervannan co founded AlphaSense raises $100 mn, bullish on India

2 Indian-American execs convicted in $1 bn corporate fraud scheme

2 Indian-American execs convicted in $1 bn corporate fraud scheme
Rishi Shah, 37, co-founder and former CEO, Shradha Agarwal, 37, former president, and Brad Purdy, 33, former chief operating officer, were convicted of defrauding Outcome Health's lenders and investors. Shah was convicted of five counts of mail fraud, 10 counts of wire fraud, two counts of bank fraud, and two counts of money laundering,

2 Indian-American execs convicted in $1 bn corporate fraud scheme

H-2B visas open for late second half returning workers for FY 2023

H-2B visas open for late second half returning workers for FY 2023
These supplemental visas are available only to the US businesses that are suffering irreparable harm or will suffer impending irreparable harm without the ability to employ all the H-2B workers requested in their petition, as attested by the employer on a new attestation form.

H-2B visas open for late second half returning workers for FY 2023

Global economy heading for weakest period of growth since 1990: IMF chief

Global economy heading for weakest period of growth since 1990: IMF chief
Ahead of the IMF publishing revised economic forecasts next week, Georgieva said global growth in 2022 had collapsed by almost half since the initial rebound from the Covid pandemic in 2021, sliding from 6.1 per cent to 3.4 per cent. 

Global economy heading for weakest period of growth since 1990: IMF chief