Indian-origin man executed in Singapore for drug trafficking

Singapore : A 29-year-old Indian-origin Malaysian man was executed on Friday in Singapore for drugs smuggling despite calls by the UN and rights groups to halt his capital punishment. Prabagaran Srivijayan was sentenced to death in 2014 after he was caught with 22.24 grams of diamorphine while trying to enter Singapore.
Srivijayan had his death sentence carried out at Singapore’s Changi Prison Complex, said the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB).He was arrested in April 2012 at Woodlands Checkpoint in the main causeway to southern Peninsular Malaysia.Two packets of the drug were recovered from the vehicle he was driving, the CNB said in a statement.On Thursday, Srivijayan’s lawyer, Choo Zheng Xi, on instructions from Srivijayan’s family, asked the Singapore apex court to stay his client’s death sentence on the grounds that his appeal in Malaysia was pending.