Drug trafficker jailed 21 years, to be caned 15 strokes
Published on Mar 28, 2012
By Selina Lum
A 28-year-old Malaysian drug trafficker was jailed 21 years and ordered to be caned 15 strokes on Wednesday.
Devanatan Naggan, who worked at a cement factory here, was stopped at the Woodlands Checkpoint while riding his motorcycle into Singapore on the evening of May 12, 2010,
A search by Central Narcotics Bureau officers found two plastic packets of heroin stashed between the inner styrofoam cushion and hard casing of his motorcycle helmet.
The two packets were analysed to contain not less than 51.41g of heroin. But the prosecution decided to reduce the charge against Devanatan to a non-capital one, which stated that he had trafficked in not less than 14.99g of heroin.
Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.
