Indian-Origin Man Jailed In Singapore For Stealing Over 1,500 Kg Of Wires From College
NDTV
The total cost to reinstate the stolen electrical cables at both campuses was 1.24 million Singapore Dollar.
An Indian-origin man in Singapore has been sentenced to 42 months in jail along with two other foreign workers from Bangladesh for stealing copper wires and cables from a vacant college in January, 2020.
Om Shakti Tiwari drove the Bangladeshi duo to the vacant college at night and waited in a rented car. Tiwari later sold 994 kg of electrical cables to a recycler for SGD 3,976, and another 773 kg of cables to the same shop for SGD 3,976. He gave some of the money to the other two accomplices, according to a Channel News Asia report on Wednesday.
After initially intending to claim trial, Bangladeshi national Miah Shobus pleaded guilty on Tuesday to four charges of house-breaking to commit theft.
The court heard that Miah, 32, conspired with fellow Bangladeshi national Jan Shak Mohabbat and entered the main consumer switch room by breaking the padlock.
