Singapore: An Indian had been sentenced to five months in jail in Singapore for obstructing a policeman during the Little India riot on Thursday. The 28-year-old youth had become the 17th Indian to be jailed for his involvement in the country’s worst violence in last 40 years.
Selvanathan Murugesan worked as a construction worker here and was charged for obstructing a policeman in the last December’s riots in the vicinity of Little India, a precinct of Indian-origin businesses, eateries and pubs.
A district court heard that Selvanathan and his brother-in-law were walking towards Little India MRT station when they were stopped by a police officer along Chander Road, who told them to go to Farrer Park MRT instead.
The officers had been posted there to block access to the condoned-off area around Race Course Road, where police were dispersing people involved in the unlawful assembly that night.
The riot had been sparked after fatal accident which involves a bus and an Indian national who was working in Singapore.
Bureau Report
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