42gm drugs smuggling ku anta ఉరి siksha anta- e singapoor galla athini mingooo

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Malaysian-Indian execution in Singapore halted after testing Covid-19 positive

The hanging of a 33-year-old Indian-origin Malaysian man was stayed by Singapore’s top court on Tuesday after a convicted drug smuggler, believed to be mentally handicapped, tested positive for COVID-19. Was. Nagendran’s Dharmalingam was to be hanged in Changi jail on Wednesday for drug trafficking. The High Court of Singapore on Monday suspended his scheduled execution until an appeal is heard during an online hearing.

According to a report by Channel News Asia, Naghenthran, who has been serving the death sentence for 11 years, was briefly put in the court of appeal to hear the last-ditch appeal against his death sentence.

However, he was later moved abruptly, and a judge informed the court that Naghenthran had tested positive for COVID-19.

“This is unexpected,” Justice Andrew Fang, who appeared along with fellow judges Judith Prakash and Kannan Ramesh, said. He said the court was of the view that it was not appropriate to proceed “in view of the circumstances.

“The hanging is set for tomorrow,” Justice Fang said.

The judge said, “…if the applicant is afflicted with COVID-19… it is our view that the hanging cannot take place anyway.”

The prosecution said that they only heard about Vikas and needed to take directions.

“I think here, we have to use logic, common sense and humanity,” Justice Fang said.

He adjourned the hearing to the date fixed so far and stayed the execution till the conclusion of the proceedings.

Advocate M Ravi had taken up Naghenthran’s case at the eleventh hour before the scheduled execution on Wednesday.

His court application for judicial review of the case on the grounds of Nagethran’s alleged mental disability was rejected on Monday, but the judge granted a temporary stay on his execution after Ravi appealed against the dismissal. The case was fast-tracked and the appeal was to be heard on Tuesday afternoon in the Supreme Court, which was packed with courtrooms including foreign media and local activists.

According to a report in Channel News Asia, Ravi was seen hugging a fellow lawyer after the suspension of execution was announced.

According to the channel, no other details were given on when Naghenthran tested positive for COVID-19.

Nagenthran was sentenced to death in 2010 for importing 42.72 grams of heroin into Singapore, in a bundle tied around his thigh, in 2009. He failed in his appeal in the High Court in 2011, in the Supreme Court in 2019 and in his petition for clemency to the President.

The case gained international attention as Naghenthran’s execution drew near.

Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yacoub wrote to his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong on the matter, and human rights groups as well as Virgin Group founder Richard Branson took note of the issue.

An online petition seeking his pardon from the death penalty has so far garnered over 70,000 signatures. It argued that Naghenthran should be spared from hanging because he committed the crime under coercion, and was assessed for a low IQ of 69.

The matter came into limelight late last month when the Singapore Prison Service wrote a letter to Nagenthran’s mother on 26 October, informing her that her son would be executed on 10 November.

The family was expected to travel from Ipoh, a major city in northern peninsular Malaysia, to Singapore’s Changi prison with Naghenthran. The jail letter said the family would be allowed daily visits till November 10. The letter was circulated on social media.

Nagenthran appealed against his conviction and conviction in the Court of Appeal, and his appeal was dismissed in September 2011.

In 2013, the law was changed to give judges the right to life imprisonment and caneing for drug couriers instead of death if they met specific conditions.

In 2015, he filed a protest application to quash the death sentence imposed on him and replace it with life imprisonment.

The High Court dismissed this application in 2017 and the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal in 2019. His petition to President Halima Yacoub for clemency was also unsuccessful.

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Trillion Thanks to covid ra baboo 

 

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Now lot of groups are protesting for converting his punishment to life-time imprisonment instead of life sentence.

Time now for amnesty international, UNO, UNCHR, big govts to step-in va