A 22-year-old Indian student was, on Wednesday (July 16, 2025), sentenced to 35 months in jail for inflicting the death of a fellow Indian nationwide by pushing him into the river whereas intoxicated.
Legha Pawan pleaded responsible to voluntarily inflicting grievous harm to Jasbir Singh, a 33-year-old construction employee, on the night time of June 30 final yr.
The authentic cost of inflicting death by a rash act was diminished, and one other cost was considered, in line with a Channel News Asia report.
Singh, who was married with two younger youngsters in India, had been the only breadwinner for his household.
The courtroom heard that each Legha and Singh have been intoxicated on the night time of June 30 when the incident occurred. After Singh was pushed into the river at Clarke Quay, a preferred riverside tourism-leisure level, a close-by couple raised alarm.
Rescue divers positioned his physique a number of hours later.
Legha fled the scene and tried to keep away from arrest, nonetheless, he was arrested the following morning, the report added.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Jheong Siew Yin stated Legha knew that the sufferer was intoxicated and it was “reasonably foreseeable” that the push would trigger grievous harm.
She additionally identified that he fled the scene with out serving to the sufferer. The defence lawyer highlighted that no weapon was used, and the push was “a generic push” not supposed to focus on susceptible factors, the Channel report stated.
For voluntarily inflicting harm that resulted in grievous harm, Legha might have been jailed for as much as 5 years, fined as much as SGD 10,000, or each, it added.
