Singapore riot: Indian gets 33 months jail, 3 strokes of cane

May 15, 2014 20:41

An Indian was today sentencedto 33 months in jail and three strokes of cane for his role in rioting last year, becoming the second man from the country tobe jailed for the worst street violence in four decades in Singapore.

Arumugam Karthik, 25, had thrown projectiles at three police vehicles and one fire engine and flipped over three police cars.

Karthik, who worked in the construction sector, had also set fire to one of the police vehicles at the scene of riot in Singapore's Little India -- a precinct of Indian businesses, pubs and eateries.

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