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Indian-Origin man executed for trafficking drugs

Prabagaran Srivijayan was sentenced to death in 2014 after he was caught with 22.24 grams of diamorphine while trying to enter 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. He was arrested in April 2012. Two packets of the drug were recovered from the car he was driving.

( Source : PTI )
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