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Former cricket coach gets jail for assisting in housebreaking plan
By Claire Huang
POSTED: 30 May 2013 2:44 PM
SINGAPORE: A former cricket coach was sentenced to 15 months' jail on Thursday for assisting in a plan to steal from his student's house.
Jeraj Puvaneshen, 26, admitted to helping two fellow coaches with housebreaking in May 2012 and a count of disposing stolen items worth more than S$10,000 in December 2009.
Two other charges of disposing stolen properties worth more than S$5,000 in May 2012 were taken into consideration for sentencing purposes.
At the time of the offences, Puvaneshen was teaching cricket at St Andrew's Secondary and St Andrew's Junior College. His assistant coaches, Rajeswari Pasupathy and Vigineswari Pasupathy, found out that one of the student's parents were away and that the 12-year-old was staying at home alone.
Thus, the two sisters got Puvaneshen to bring the cricket team boys, including the victim, for a run outside the school at about 2pm. The two sisters went on to steal more than S$20,000 worth of gold jewellery and other items from the boy's house, using keys stolen from his bag.
In mitigation, the defence said Puvaneshen makes no excuses for his actions and regrets what he did. It was said that the accused was blindsided by the temptation and although he did distract the victim, he was not the initiator of this plot.
However, the prosecution pointed out that Puvaneshen was a teacher and he abused the trust placed in him.
District Judge Low Wee Ping agreed with the prosecution's call for a deterrent sentence of 15 months' jail. He noted in his judgement that the accused not only disposed off some of the items stolen from the student, but also did the same for another batch of stolen gold jewellery in 2009.
Calling these "outrageous facts", the judge said Puvaneshen then went on to share the proceeds from the disposals.
Puvaneshen is the first of the three accused to be dealt with. The other two are expected in court on July 12.
By Shaffiq Alkhatib
The New Paper
Monday, Jun 18, 2012
Two sisters who have represented Singapore in cricket, Vigineswari Pasupathy, 22, and Rajeswari Pasupathy, 24, have been slapped with more housebreaking charges.
The sisters and a school cricket coach, Jeraj Puvaneshen, 26, were charged in court earlier this month with housebreaking on May 17.
With the new charges on Friday, the women are now accused of taking more than $68,000 worth of items after allegedly breaking into three different homes.
The trio's original charges were also amended.
Jeraj is now accused of instigating the sisters to commit housebreaking.
He allegedly distracted a man, Mr Pradhiv Janarthanan, at St Andrew's Secondary School at Francis Thomas Drive near Potong Pasir on May 17.
The sisters allegedly got hold of Mr Pradhiv's house keys and later broke into a flat at Block 567, Hougang Street 51, and made off with $20,000 in valuables.
They are also said to have broken into a flat in Block 154, Serangoon North Avenue 1, around 1pm on Dec 21, 2009.
They allegedly made off with more than $35,000 in cash and valuables there.
Valuables sold
About an hour later, Jeraj allegedly helped to dispose of 21 pieces of gold jewellery which he allegedly knew to be stolen property at Jin Huang 1st Jewellery Shop at Eu Tong Sen Street.
The 15 gold bangles and six gold rings are worth about $10,200.
The sisters also allegedly broke into a flat in Block 116, Serangoon North Avenue 1, and stole valuables worth more than $13,000 around 1.30pm on Sept 30, 2010.
The trio, who are out on $20,000 bail each, will be back in court on June 29.
Anyone convicted of housebreaking to commit theft can be jailed up to 10 years.
This article was first published in The New Paper.
Cricket coach Jeraj Puvaneshan (above) who was earlier charged with housebreaking and theft of items now faces a new charge of helping to dispose of stolen jewellery at a pawnshop in Chinatown. A former school cricket coach was jailed for 15 months on Thursday, May 30, 2013 for helping two assistant coaches, both sisters, to commit housebreaking and theft of $20,392 worth of property. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
