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Hanzo Hattori
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Tuesday January 4, 2011
Indian national ‘overstays’ prison term by 32 months
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Compiled by CHRISTINA TAN, IZATUN SHARI and A. RAMAN
AN Indian citizen has been languishing in a detention centre for more than 36 months despite being sentenced to a four-month jail term for illegal entry, reported Tamil Nesan.
It said that S. Nallusamy, 37, was frustrated with his predicament that he had asked for poison from a social worker who visited him at the Lenggeng detention centre.
Nallusamy’s plight came to light when social worker S. Kamalanathan was contacted by the man’s family in Tiruchy, India.
He was earlier detained by the Immigration in 2007 for not having travel documents after entering Malaysia in 2002.
Kamalanathan said he was told by immigration officers that they had submitted documents to the Indian High Commission to enable Nallusamy to be repatriated back to India after completing his sentence.
However, they had not received any reply.
