A 39-year-old Indian-origin Malaysian who was sentenced to death via Zoom for drug trafficking in May 2020 was on Monday acquitted by Singapore’s Court of Appeal, saying the prosecution did not prove its case.
Singapore’s highest court of appeals acquitted Punithan Genasan of one count of trafficking drug by introducing two drug couriers to each other at a car parking here in October 2011, Channel News Asia reported.
Genasan was sentenced to death in May 2020, the first capital punishment given in Singapore during the COVID-19 pandemic.
He was implicated in the case when one of the drug couriers, alleged that Genasan was the mastermind behind a drug transaction for which the drug couriers were arrested by Central Narcotics Bureau officers on October 28, 2011.
The two were in possession of granular substances containing at least 28.5g of diamorphine or pure heroin. Illegal traffic, import or export of diamorphine of more than 15 grams is punishable by death under Singapore’s Misuse…