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A Singapore court on Tuesday stayed the prosecution of a 33- time-old Indian- origin Malaysian man, condemned of medicine trafficking, after he tested positive for Covid Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam was to be hanged at Changi Prison for medicine trafficking on Wednesday Singapore’s High Court on Monday suspended his slated prosecution until an appeal is heard during an online hail.
Dharmalingam, who has been on death row for 11 times, was steered in briefly into the wharf at the Court of Appeal for the hail of a last- gutter appeal against his death judgment, Channel News Asia reported Still, he was latterly taken down, and a judge informed the court that Nagaenthran had tested positive for Covid Justice Andrew Phang, who appeared with fellow judges Judith Prakash and Kannan Ramesh, said,”This is rather unanticipated.”
He said the court was of the view that it wasn’t applicable to do” given the circumstances
The prosecution is listed for hereafter,” said Justice Phang If the aspirant has been tormented by Covid. it’s our view that the prosecution can not take place anyway,”the judge said The execution said they only just heard of the development and demanded to take instructions “I suppose then, we’ve to use sense, common sense and humanity,” said Justice Phang He suspended the hail to a date yet to be fixed and issued a stay of the prosecution until proceedings are concluded Lawyer M Ravi had taken up Nagaenthran’s case at the eleventh hour, ahead of his listed hanging on Wednesday.
His court operation on Monday for a judicial review of the case on grounds of Nagaenthran’s purported internal disability was dismissed, but the judge granted a temporary stay of his prosecution until after Ravi appealed against the redundancy The case was presto- tracked and the appeal set to be heard in the loftiest court on Tuesday autumn, with a packed courtroom including foreign media and original activists.
Ravi was seen hugging a fellow counsel after the stay of prosecution was blazoned, according to a Channel News Asia report No other details of when Nagaenthran tested positive for Covid were given, according to the Channel Nagaenthran was doomed to death in 2010 for importing42.72 g of heroin into Singapore in 2009 in a pack strapped to his ham. He failed in his prayers to the High Court in 2011, to the Apex Court in 2019 and in his solicitation to the chairman for leniency.
The case drew transnational attention as Nagaenthran’s impending prosecution neared, with an online solicitation against his death judgment drawing about autographs as of Tuesday, and content by transnational media Malaysia’s high minister wrote to his Singapore counterpart on the matter, and mortal rights groups as well as Virgin Group author Richard Branson also counted in on the issue. PTI
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