PETALING JAYA: Malaysian Kalwant Singh has been executed in Singapore for drug trafficking, according to Singaporean human rights activist Kirsten Han.
Kalwant, 32, was convicted in June 2016 of possessing 60.15gm of diamorphine and trafficking 120.9gm of the drug in the city-state.
He was arrested when he was 23 and had spent the last nine years in prison.
Singapore’s Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed Kalwant’s final appeal, after his lawyer, Too Xing Ji, argued that Kalwant had given information to Singapore’s Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) about a suspect who was eventually arrested.
However, in a report in The Straits Times, the CNB said the information that led to the suspect’s arrest was the result of investigations into an unrelated case.
Kalwant’s petition for clemency was unsuccessful, and in a statement on Tuesday, the CNB said the Malaysian and Norasharee Gous – a Singaporean who Kalwant was tried with – were accorded “full due process under the law”.
Today’s execution follows that of another Malaysian, Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam, who was sent to the gallows in Singapore on April 27 for trafficking heroin.-FMT