Indian origin man in Singapore will get 13 years in jail for hashish possession | World News

An Indian-origin man in Singapore was on Monday sentenced to 13 years in jail and 10 strokes of the cane for illegally possessing hashish for the aim of trafficking.

An area court docket heard that Narkkeeran Arasan, 45, was dealing with "monetary stress" in 2021 and determined to resort to promoting hashish for "quick money", in line with a report by Channel News Asia.

He collected 329.99 gm of the managed drug from a drain in Marsiling with the intention of promoting it for revenue when he was nabbed by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) whereas commuting in a Seize automobile.

Arasan ordered a e-book of hashish, which he understood to imply 1 kg in weight, on April 11, 2021, from a contact he solely knew as "R and R" and paid SGD 3,000 (USD 2,249.96) for it.

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The following day he collected a black plastic bag containing the drug from a drain within the Marsiling space, then positioned it in a black Coach bag, and boarded a Seize rent automobile.

The CNB officers appearing on the data they obtained arrested Arasan close to the junction of Woodlands Avenue 9 on April 12, 2021.

They searched the automobile and seized the black Coach bag containing a block of vegetable matter inside layers of plastic and tape.

The block was examined and located to include a mix of at the least 523.5g of vegetable matter and at the least 413.5g of fragmented vegetable matter.

The block weighed at the least 937.2g and was a mix of hashish -- a Class A managed drug beneath the Misuse of Medicine Act.

A search of Arasan's house revealed nothing else that was incriminating, the report stated.

The investigation additionally revealed that Arasan had no prospects but when he was caught with the drug.

He had been admitted to a drug rehabilitation centre in 2019 for drug consumption, stated the prosecutor.

Sentencing for a person concerned within the trafficking of hashish goes 5 to 6 years for as much as 99.1g of hashish, between 13 and 15 years for 297.2 to 329.9g of hashish.

The offence of possessing a Class A managed drug for the needs of trafficking carries a minimal of 5 years in jail and 5 strokes of the cane, and a most of 20 years in jail and 15 strokes of the cane.