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 damage to Jasbir Singh, a 33-year-old construction employee, on the night time of June 30 final yr.
The unique cost of inflicting death by a rash act was lowered, and one other cost was considered, in response to a Channel News Asia report.
Singh, who was married with two younger kids in India, had been the only real breadwinner for his household.
The courtroom heard that each Legha and Singh had been intoxicated on the night time of June 30 when the incident occurred. After Singh was pushed into the river at Clarke Quay, a well-liked riverside tourism-leisure level, a close-by couple raised alarm.
Rescue divers situated his physique a couple 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 mentioned Legha knew that the sufferer was intoxicated and it was “reasonably foreseeable” that the push would trigger grievous damage.
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 meant to focus on weak factors, the Channel report mentioned.
For voluntarily inflicting damage that resulted in grievous damage, Legha might have been jailed for as much as 5 years, fined as much as SGD 10,000, or each, it added.
