Singapore hangs Thiru Selvam for 807 grams of cannabis
Thiruselvan s/o Nagaratnam, 28, was hanged at dawn on 28 September 2001 at Changi Prison for abetting the trafficking of 807.6 grams of cannabis. He had maintained his innocence after a friend caught in an undercover sting named him as the supplier.
Thiruselvan s/o Nagaratnam, a 28-year-old Singaporean father of two known as Thiru Selvam, was hanged at dawn on 28 September 2001.[1][2][3]He had been sentenced to death for drug trafficking in September 2000 after denying involvement in a cannabis case.[2][3]
He was charged with abetting Katheraven s/o Gopal in trafficking 807.6 grams of cannabis on 13 January 2000 at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6 in Singapore.[1]Katheraven had offered to sell a kilogram of cannabis to an undercover narcotics officer, handed over a slab of cannabis in a car park, and was arrested on the spot.[1]He then told the police that the drugs belonged to Thiru Selvam.[3]
At trial Thiru Selvam was reportedly told that confessing would bring 25 years in prison and 24 strokes of the cane, but he refused, maintained his innocence, and was sentenced to death while Katheraven received a 25-year prison term.[3]The High Court found that the evidence pointed irresistibly to the accused as the supplier of the cannabis and ruled the charge proved beyond reasonable doubt, sentencing him in accordance with the law.[1]
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