Indian-origin student jailed for gold bar theft in Singapore
4 Aug 2014 5:10 AM IST
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.
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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