Indian-origin student jailed for gold bar theft in Singapore

Update: 2014-08-03 23:40 GMT
A 22-year-old Indian-origin student has been jailed for four months in Singapore for stealing four gold bars worth 14,775 dollars from a shop here.

Sivasakthi Kumanaran Nagarajan, who faced a jail term of seven years and a fine, pleaded guilty yesterday to the theft on 4 July, The Straits Times reported on Saturday.

Nagarajan and two of his compatriots identified the shop in a suburb housing estate to steal the gold bars last month. One of his compatriots, 19-year-old Vairavan Venkatesh, had allegedly posed as a customer and ran off with the gold bars after pretending to inspect them.

Venkatesh, a full time National Serviceman, told a sales assistant in the shop that his father owned a gold smith shop back home in India.

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