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Singapore: Nagagaenthran Dharmallingam, a Malaysian man of Indian origin mentally condemned, sentenced in a drug trafficking case, was executed in Singapore today, his family said on Tuesday after his mother’s appeal was rejected by the Court of Appeal.Dharmalingam, 34, was hanged this morning and his remains will be brought back to IPOH, a city in northern peninsular Malaysia, said the Bernama news agency cited Dharmalingam’s brother Navin Kumar.He was sentenced in 2010 and had exhausted all legal appeals. He first had to be hanged on November 10 of last year, but filed a final challenge. After the request of his mother was rejected, the court ordered his death penalty.
Dharmallingam was found guilty and sentenced to death in November 2010 for importing 42.72 grams of heroine in 2009, when he was captured at Woodlands Checkpoint (a pavement link with peninsular malaise) while entering Singapore, With the packet of drugs attached to his thigh.
The mother, who came to the Singapore court in northern Malaysia, failed during her last -minute call to save her son.This last minute request, brought only two days before the planned execution, and is the seventh request (without appeal) presented by Nagaenthran after his appeal against the conviction was rejected by the Court of Appeal in 2011 he Over 10 years ago, “The Chambers of the Singapore Attorney General said today.
“This is the last attempt to abuse the court processes and to delay without justice the transport in force of the legal sentence imposed on the Nagaenthran,” he said.
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