Singapore: Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, an Indian-Origin man who was mentally challenged who was punished in the drug trade case, executed in Singapore today, his family told the media after his mother’s appeal was dismissed by the appeal court on Tuesday.
Dharmalingam, 34, hung this morning and his body will be brought back to Ipoh, a city on the northern Peninsula Malaysia, a news agency named quoting Dharmalingam’s siblings Navin Kumar said.
He was sentenced in 2010 and had spent all the legal paths. He was first scheduled to be hung on November 10 last year but filed the last challenge. After his mother’s request was dismissed, the court ordered the death sentence.
Dharmalingam was sentenced and sentenced to death in November 2010 for importing 42.72 grams of heroin in 2009, when he was arrested at the Woodlands examination post (causes -causes with the Malaysian Peninsula) when entering Singapore, with a bundle of drugs tied to his thighs.
The mother, who came to the Singapore court from North Malaysia, failed in her last minute appeal to save her son.
“This is the last minute application, brought only two days before the scheduled execution, and is the seventh application (excluding an appeal) brought by Nagaenthran after his appeal against the sentence was dismissed by the appeal court in 2011 more than 10 years ago,” Ship Attorney General Singapore say today.
“This is the latest attempt to misuse the court process and unfairly delay the influence of the legal sentence imposed on Nagaenthran,” he said.