MALAYSIAN Kalwant Singh has been executed in Singapore for drug trafficking, said Singapore human rights activist Kirsten Han.
The 32-year-old Kalwant was convicted in June 2016 for possessing 60.15 grammes of diamorphine and trafficking 120.9 grammes of the drug in the country.
According to news reports, he was arrested when he was 23 and had spent the last nine years in prison.
On Wednesday (July 6), Singapore’s Court of Appeal had dismissed Kalwant’s final appeal after his lawyer, Too Xing Ji had argued that Kalwant had given information to Singapore’s Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) about a suspect who was eventually arrested.
However, it was noted in The Straits Times that the CNB had said that the information that led to the suspect’s arrest was the result of investigations into an unrelated case.
Following Kalwant’s failure to petition for clemency, the CNB in a statement on Tuesday said that the Malaysian and Norasharee Gous – a Singaporean who Kalwant was tried with – were accorded “full due process under the law”.
Kalwant’s execution follows that of another Malaysian Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam who was executed in Singapore in April for trafficking heroin. – July 7, 2022
Main photo credit: Malaysiakini
